== Litteratur ==
* ''Australian Dictionary of Biography''. Vol.1 :1788-1850. 1966 Melbourne University Press.
* Dalrymple, Alexander (ca. 1790). ''Practical Navigation''. Printer's proof. National Library of Scotland, shelfmark Nha.M90 (3)
* Friendly, Alfred. ''Beaufort of the Admiralty''. New York. Random House, 1977
* Huler, Scott (2004). ''Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry''. Crown. {{ISBN|978-1-4000-4884-7}}
* Howard T. Fry, ''Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808) and the Expansion of British Trade,'' London, Cass for the Royal Commonwealth Society, 1970. {{ISBN|0-7146-2594-9}}
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