We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!

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Dying words as his frigate Squirrel sank in the Atlantic Ocean near the Azores, 5 August 1583, Quoted in Richard Hakluyt, The Third and Last Volume of the Voyages of the English Nation (1600). Chamber's Dictionary of Quotations (1996), p. 353

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