There's the eight-acre plaza, the largest in California, which Vallejo himself laid out with a pocket compass and a line.
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:: What is the connection you are trying to make between the quote about the pocket compass and his his two wives, OP?
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And a small pocket compass believed to have been made for France's Louis XIV and then taken by Napoleon Bonaparte fetched $ 65, 750.
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Using a pocket compass, I set a course for an area along the barrier beach where the aforementioned opening had cut a deep channel along the pond shore before it had closed.
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On 1 July 1796, he escaped, alone and with nothing but his horse and a pocket compass, and on the 21st reached the long-sought Niger River at S�gou, being the first European to do so.
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The surveying was done using a pocket compass and tapeline for measuring instruments . The old ridge road from Unionville, Iowa to Moravia and west to Iconium, Iowa was the Mormon Trail of 1846 from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake, Utah.
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For provisions they were given " " three small casks of water, containing about ninety gallons, four bags of bread and three pieces of salt beef " and managed to smuggle aboard " two hams, two cheeses, and a small keg containing about four gallons of rum ", and for navigation a quadrant, and a small pocket compass.