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Bowditch

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Bowditch
standard navigational work, American Practical Navigator; so called from its compiler, Nathaniel Bowditch. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 97]
See : Sea


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That, now, is what old Bowditch in his Epitome calls the zodiac, and what my almanack below calls ditto.
Beware of enlisting in your vigilant fisheries any lad with lean brow and hollow eye; given to unseasonable meditativeness; and who offers to ship with the phaedon instead of Bowditch in his head.
 
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