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Firft, the latitude is obtained from the confideration that the diftance is to the difference of latitude, as radius to the cofine of the courfe which is common to plain failing.
Mathematical Tables: Containing Common, Hyperbolic, and Logistic Logarithms ... 1785
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I AM aware of the delicacy, and novelty of my fituation, as well from the indulgence of the houfe, as from the neu - tral courfe, which I mean to purfue.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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But others who foon appeared in different parts, followed her courfe j - y.
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Aftei* leavihg Mangeea, on the afternoon of the 30th, we continued oiur courfe 'northward all that night, and till noon on the 31ft; when we again faw land, in the diredtion of north-eaft-by-north, diftant eight or ten leagues; and next morning, at aght o'clock, we got abreaft of its north end.
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Welhall inthe courfe of his narrative per - ceive, that he fcarcely ever failed of making excurfions for the purpofe of examining the moft important branches f of culture of the different countries; the natural hiftory of thefe he gives in the bell manner in his power; not, indeed, wiih the exafUtude of a botanift, but with the precifion of a man. of fenfe.
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Coiifidering the magnitude of the fubjed and the unfor»; feen nature of the cafe, it was thought proper, not to ex/rcife the authority vefh-d in the Treafury Department, until Congrefs had taken the fubjcCl into confideration and pre - fcribed, if it was thought proper, the courfe to be purfued.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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L E c T. rupting the courfe of his Hiftory, with his own
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He inquired, i? o9 in the firft place, whether the Company would have occafion to apply to the Public for pecuniary aid in the courfe. of the prefent year.
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I confefs, been always in proportion to the centuries that have paffed over it; for, during the courfe of fome ages, it has funk as into a total lethargy.
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This farm lies at fome diftance in the interiorof the country, on the left of the Paramatta river; from the fummit of the hill on which it is iituate, a part of the river's courfe is diftinguifhed: the buildings are charming road, in a very handfome one-horfe chaife.
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