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American travel diary of an unknown Englishman, 1864
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The Captain says the deviation of the compass varies from 2 1/2[degrees] west about at Liverpool to 3 1/2[degrees] & back again till at Boston it is only 1/2[degree]. From the N. York Tribune - July - "Facts & rumors in Washington" "Veteran infantry & regular artillerists, passing through the Town at the edge of the Sabbath evening & at dawn of Monday gave deeper assurance to the sleep of the timid who get torn to pieces by the periodical invasion excitements of this war" We lost 3 of our crew at Halifax such high prices are given for seamen to run new ships built at St. Johns & other places.
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The Captain says the deviation of the compass varies from 2 1/2[degrees] west about at Liverpool to 3 1/2[degrees] & back again till at Boston it is only 1/2[degree]. From the N. York Tribune - July - "Facts & rumors in Washington" "Veteran infantry & regular artillerists, passing through the Town at the edge of the Sabbath evening & at dawn of Monday gave deeper assurance to the sleep of the timid who get torn to pieces by the periodical invasion excitements of this war" We lost 3 of our crew at Halifax such high prices are given for seamen to run new ships built at St. Johns & other places.
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