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Excerpt from A Practical Manual of the Compass: A Short Treatise on the Errors of the Magnetic Compass, With the Methods Employed in the U. S. Navy for Compensating the Deviations and a Description of Service Instruments, Including the Gyro-Compass This book, prepared at the Naval Observatory and Naval Academy, is designed to become the service compass manual and to replace Diehl's Practical Problems and the Compensation of the Compass, which will not be republished. It was originally compiled by Lieutenant Commander Harris Laning, Head of the Department Of Navigation at the Naval Academy, as a text - book for mid shipmen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.