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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]
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That, now, is what old Bowditch in his Epitome calls the zodiac, and what my almanack below calls ditto.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
 
 
 
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