The sea-mans grammar and dictionary explaining all the difficult terms in navigation : and the practical navigator and gunner : in two parts / by Captain John Smith, sometimes governour of Virginia, and admiral of New England.

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Title: The sea-mans grammar and dictionary explaining all the difficult terms in navigation : and the practical navigator and gunner : in two parts / by Captain John Smith, sometimes governour of Virginia, and admiral of New England.
Author: Smith, John, 1580-1631.
Publication: London :: Printed and are to be sold by Randal Taylor ...,; MDCXCI [1691]
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Subject terms: Naval art and science -- Early works to 1800.; Gunnery -- Early works to 1800.; Ordnance, Naval -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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CHAP. XXVII.

How you may make a good Shot at your Enemies Light in a dark night.

TO perform this, dispart your Piece, with a piece of lighted Match, then bring your Gun, so that you may see the top of the Metal at the Breech of the Piece, the coal of the Match, and the Light you are to Shoot at, all in one Right Line; Which done, give Fire.