To find your course by protractor, put the protractor down on the chart so that the North and South line on the compass card of the protractor will be immediately over a meridian of longitude on the chart, or be exactly parallel to one, and will intersect the point from which you intend to depart.
"Lectures in Navigation"
Ernest Gallaudet Draper
With exception of a watch and a protractor, all of the apparatus needed may be built by any one of fair mechanical talent who will follow the illustrations and descriptions of the text.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock
4, and with the protractor measure the angle thus marked.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock