 | Elias Loomis - 1859 - 218 sider
...found to be south-southwest. What was the vessel's course at the time ? Ans. N. 42° 35' W. Prob. 8. Two ships of war, intending to cannonade a fort, are,...water, kept so far from it that they suspect their guns can not reach it with effect. In order, therefore, to measure the distance, they separate from each... | |
 | Elias Loomis - 1859 - 372 sider
...found to be south-southwest. What was the vessel's course at the time ? Ans. N. 42° 35X W. Prob. 8. Two ships of war, intending to cannonade a fort, are,...water, kept so far from it that they suspect their guns can not reach it with effect. In order, therefore, to measure the distance, they separate from each... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - 1860 - 470 sider
...and my distance from it at the first station. . /Height, 307.54 fee*. ' " \ Distance, 192.18 « 16. Two ships of war, intending to cannonade a fort, are,...from each other a quarter of a mile, or 440 yards, and then each ship observes and measures the angle which the other ship and fort subtends ; these angles... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1860 - 1020 sider
...guns can!.. i rraHi it with effect. In order, therefore, to measure tbe distance, they se|. irtte frwm each other a quarter of a mile, or 440 yards; then each ship ob~-ri.-« and measures the angles which the other ship and the fort subtends, n:,..-li angles were... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - 1865 - 474 sider
...307.54 feet. M!" I Distance, 192.18 " 16. Two ships of war, intending to cannonade a fort, are,.by the shallowness of the water, kept so far from it,...from each other a quarter of a mile, or 440 yards, and then each ship observes and measures the angle which the other ship and fort subtends ; these angles... | |
 | Lefébure de Fourcy (M., Louis Etienne) - 1868 - 350 sider
...the steeple, and what its distance? Ans. Height, 210.44 feet. Distance, 250.79 " 11. Two ships-of- war, intending to cannonade a fort, are, \ by the shallowness of the- water, kept so far from it, they \ suspect that their guns cannot have effect. In order to measiire the distance, they separate... | |
 | Elias Loomis - 1868 - 380 sider
...course at the time ? Ans. N. 42o 35' W. Prob. 8. Two ships of war, intending to cannonade a fort, arc, by the shallowness of the water, kept so far from it that they suspect their guns can not reach it with effect. In order, therefore, to measure the distance, they separate from each... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - 1878 - 564 sider
...tower, and my distance from it at the first station. Ans ( Height, 307.54 feet. (Distance, 192.18 " 19. Two ships of war, intending to cannonade a fort, are,...from each other a quarter of a mile, or 440 yards, and then each ship observes and measures the angle which the other ship and fort subtends ; these angles... | |
 | Elias Loomis - 1878 - 372 sider
...course at the time ? Ans. N. 42° 35' W. Prob. 8. Two ships of war, intending to cannonade a fort, p.rc, by the shallowness of the water, kept so far from it that they susjKJct their guns can not reach it with effect. In order, therefore, to measure the distance, they... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - 1880 - 228 sider
...tower, and my distance from it at the first station. . /Height, 307.54 feet. " l Distance, 192.18 " 16. Two ships of war, intending to cannonade a fort, are,...that they suspect their guns cannot reach it with eifect. In order, therefore, to measure the distance, they separate from each other a quarter of a... | |
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Two ships of war, intending to cannonade a fort, are, by the shallowness of the water, kept so far from it, that they suspect their guns cannot reach it with effect. In order, therefore, to measure the distance, they separate from each other a quarter... 
