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The anchor raifed, we hoifted all iail, fteering N.N. £• for Maria Ifland, which we reached in the evening.
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Dominica and Guadaloupe; and about the latitude of the Bermudas, found the variable winds, when fteering to the eaftward, we di - reded our courfe for England.
Voyages and travels of a sea officer [microform] Vernon, Francis V 1792
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Who, while he fteering, view'd the ftars, and bore His courfe from Africk, to the Latian fhore.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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But fteering round, he charged his pilot ftand Moreclofe to fhore, and fkim along the fand.
The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson 1790
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We had now a fine breeze at eaft-by-north 5 and, at noon, the fecond ifland, named Atooi, for the eaft end of which we were fteering, was about two leagues diftant.
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Soon after Hanno, a Carthaginian officer, in a quinque - oceafionsa reme, fell into the hands of Junius the conful, as he was mutiny in fteering with a 'fquadron for Lilybaeum.
An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time 1780
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To Paradife firft tending, when behold Satan in likenefs of an Angel bright Betwixt the Centaur and the Scorpion fteering His zenith, while the fun in Aries rofe:
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Since, if inftead of fteering eaft north-eaft, into the latitude ef 30 degrees, they at firlt flood north eaft, or even ItiU more northerly, into the latitude of 40 or 45 de -
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The Feiicice was bound for Maninique, iluable cargo, in company with another fri - he fame force» which fuffcred ftiipwreck on of Dunkirk. courfe of the fame month, captain Hood, inerva frigate, cruifing in the chops of the defcried a great Ihip of two decks fteering rftward, and found it to be the Warwick, an fhip, which had carried fixty cannon, and en by the enemy.
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If you will make the harbour, the mountain muft bear north-eaft; then, fteering diredlly with the mountain, that courfc will bring you to the harbour, the entrance whereof you fee about three leagues off it.
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