| 1835 - 596 Seiten
...adjoining one, was any such document ; even in the Admiralty Office no other than an indifferent chart of the coast could be found : as for the adjacent...ignorant of the distance of the neighbouring villages. But we may approach still nearer to our own times, when the often fatal axiom has obtained, that to... | |
| Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1835 - 522 Seiten
...such document ; even in the Admiralty office, no other than an in lifferent chart of the coast ceuld be found As for the adjacent country, it was so little...landed, their commander was ignorant of the distance of Ihe neighbouring villages,— Ibid. Air v. Water.— The Richmond Enquirer (US) mentions a remarkable... | |
| 1835 - 598 Seiten
...adjoining one, was any such document ; even in the Admiralty Office no other than an indifferent chart of the coast could be found : as for the adjacent...when the British troops landed, their commander was * " A Treatise on Nautical Surveying," by Commander Edward Belcher. ignorant of the distance of the... | |
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