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A60494 The sea-mans grammar and dictionary explaining all the difficult terms in navigation : and the practical navigator and gunner : in two parts / by Captain John Smith, sometimes governour of Virginia, and admiral of New England. Smith, John, 1580-1631. 1691 (1691) Wing S4124; ESTC R37567 112,601 181

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