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N.B. Page references to Smith works in the notes refer in all instances to the page
numbers of the original editions, which are in boldface numerals in brackets in the
margins.
1. Cf. Sir Henry Mainwaring, "The Seaman's Dictionary," in G. E. Manwaring
and W. G. Perrin, eds., The Life and Works of Sir Henry Mainwaring (Navy Records Society,
LIV, LVI [London, 1920, 1922]), II, 85 (hereafter cited as Mainwaring, "Seaman's
Dictionary"): "To understand the art of navigation is far easier learned than to know the
practice and mechanical working of ships. ... There are helps for the first by many
books, ... but for the other, till this, there was not so much as a means thought of, to
inform anyone in it." That Smith had not seen a manuscript copy of Mainwaring before
Oct. 23, 1626, seems highly probable.
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