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compiled at sea, 2

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(discolored endpaper, rotated 90º, edited in extreme SW)
(Charlotte Maria Tucker). Hours with Orientals, by A.L.O.E.. (London, 1881)
Bodleian copy, digitized August 29, 2006

595     Night.
596     Morning.

597     Noon.
598     Midnight.

243     Where are you bound to?
244     How long are you out?

98     What appearance has the land?

99     It appears high.
100     It appears low.

101     Ditto, sandy.

102     Ditto, rocks.
103     Ditto, breakers.

104     Ditto, woody.

108     Have you been on shore?

126     I have reason to suppose.
127     I am not positive.

599     Be.
600     Sure.

601     Up.
602     Down.

603     Along.
604     Work.

605     Shore.
606     About.

621     Are.
622     The.

645     Any.
646     Give.

647     Take.
648     Fast.

649     Slow.
650     Aberdeen.

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ex A Code of Signals, for the use of Merchant’s Ships in general.
Compiled at sea, on board the Woodbridge. (London, 1816)
British Library copy, digitized September 16, 2014

A strange code, this; impractical, a mere sketch. Its principles of organization unclear, though its pairings and groupings are interesting. Remarkable that it was printed; it may have been intended as a prospectus for a more elaborate code. These were years of speculative code-making: John Macdonald his A Naval, Military and Political Telegraphic Dictionary — much plundered at asfaltics — appeared but one year later.
 

19 January 2015

tags:
appearances; are’s the’s; at sea; skies; compiled at sea; signal codes; telegraphic codes
C. M. Tucker