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- “there is noe doubt but that it often happens that shipps sayling from the Road of Salina meet with crosse and contrary winds so as they cannot hold the direct Course, but must and doe sayle this way and that way as they may to gett advantage of wind. And he saith that in turning to and fro the whole traverse may happen to be or contayne one hundred or more leagues more than the Course in a direct lyne when the wind is favourable, howbeit he saith the sayd traverse may and ought to be made as neere the direct line as may be and never to exceed six eight or ten leagues ˹or thereabouts from the latitude which is direct˺ to the intent that when the wind proves good the shipp may still be in her ready way homewards to take advantage of it, which if she sayle and hundred or more leagues from the direct Course she cannot doe”
(HCA 13/71 f.30r: Case: XXXX; Deposition: 2. Captaine Thomas Chinn of Shadwell in the County of Middlesex Mariner aged 40)
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