Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A New System for Preventing Collisions at Sea
The cloud produced by the puff Of a locomotive can quench the rays of the noonday sun; it is not therefore surprising that in dense fogs our most powerful coast lights, including even the electric light, should become useless to the mariner.
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