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
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595 Night.
596 Morning.
597 Noon.
598 Midnight.
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243 Where are you bound to?
244 How long are you out?
98 What appearance has the land?
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99 It appears high.
100 It appears low.
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101 Ditto, sandy.
102 Ditto, rocks.
103 Ditto, breakers.
104 Ditto, woody.
108 Have you been on shore?
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126 I have reason to suppose.
127 I am not positive.
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599 Be.
600 Sure.
601 Up.
602 Down.
603 Along.
604 Work.
605 Shore.
606 About.
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621 Are.
622 The.
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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.
tags:
appearances; are’s the’s; at sea; skies; compiled at sea; signal codes; telegraphic codes
C. M. Tucker