What is the longest sentence you have found at LV?

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"The Compass in Modern Navigation" of the National Geographic Magazine vol 8 - September 1897 has this lovely explanation, containing 169 words and making up a whole paragraph on its own:

He will then understand and be prepared for such changes in the ship's magnetism as arise from the heeling of the ship, from change in geographical position, and from alteration in the course after the ship has remained for a long time on one heading, and he may navigate his vessel with the confidence and security that he would have in a wooden ship, for he can at any time correct the course steered by the compass so that the magnetic course actually made good may be laid down upon the chart or used in the calculation of the ship's reckoning, he can correct bearings of the land by the amount of deviation due to the direction of the ship's head at the time they were taken, and if he wishes to shape a course for a port, having found by calculation or from the chart the correct magnetic course to be made good, he can so apply the deviation as to obtain the compass course to be steered.

Essentially the article says "Using magnetic compasses on iron ships is difficult. But you can do math to get around this."