May 30, 2017Swann NewsMaps & Atlases Leaving the Land: Ship’s Logs from England to the Mediterranean in the Nineteenth Century Read more about Leaving the Land: Ship’s Logs from England to the Mediterranean in the Nineteenth Century In January of 1819, Captain William Hodgson steered the three-masted merchant ship Transit down the River Avon from Bristol, beginning a six-month voyage toward the Mediterranean. The ship’s log book he…