Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Works of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 2 of 12: Including the Private as Well as the Official and Scientific Correspondence, Together With the Unmutilated and Correct Version of the Autobiography
Why ships, in crossing the Atlantic, have longer passages sailing eastward than in sailing westward.
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