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Re: Sumner's Line (Navigation question)
From: Chuck Taylor
Date: 2006 Feb 11, 17:53 -0800

--- George Huxtable wrote:

> By the way, my copy of Bowditch (2vols) in vol.1
> (1977) section 131, has a page about Sumner, with
> some quotations, which does NOT include those
> inauthentic words "The result to the ship might have
> been disasterous had this wrong position been
> adopted". It must have been (wisely) dropped. I
> wonder when.

Those words were dropped sometime after the 1943
edition of Bowditch, and before the 1962 edition.

Chuck Taylor
N  47d 55'
W 122d 11'

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