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Time keeper
Chronometer - an instrument used to establish longitude. John Harrison was acknowledged to have solved the 'longitude problem' with his fourth chronometer, H4, in 1773. Captain Cook successfully used a copy of H4 on his second voyage of discovery, 20 years before Flinders' voyage in the 'Providence'.

Trifolium
Leguminous plants such as clover.

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