An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere: And Successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour, Band 1W. Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand, 1773 |
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... tide , fo that the cannot be floated off till the return of the next spring . 0 . OFFING , implies out at fea ; or at a competent diftance from the fhore , and generally out of anchor - ground . OPEN , is expreffed of any distant object ...
... tide , fo that the cannot be floated off till the return of the next spring . 0 . OFFING , implies out at fea ; or at a competent diftance from the fhore , and generally out of anchor - ground . OPEN , is expreffed of any distant object ...
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... tide - way , at the beginning of the flood or ebb . THWART , the feat or bench of a boat whereon the rowers fit to ma- nage the oars . TILER , the bar or lever employed to turn the rudder in steering . TIMBERS , the ribs of a fhip ...
... tide - way , at the beginning of the flood or ebb . THWART , the feat or bench of a boat whereon the rowers fit to ma- nage the oars . TILER , the bar or lever employed to turn the rudder in steering . TIMBERS , the ribs of a fhip ...
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... tide I had ever known . I came to an anchor off the harbour in nine fa- thom , the entrance of the river being open , and bearing W.S.W .; Penguin Island S. E. E. diftant about three leagues ; the Steeple rock S. W. by W .; the ...
... tide I had ever known . I came to an anchor off the harbour in nine fa- thom , the entrance of the river being open , and bearing W.S.W .; Penguin Island S. E. E. diftant about three leagues ; the Steeple rock S. W. by W .; the ...
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... tide running at the rate of eight miles an hour : we found also many rocks and fhoals , but all the danger shows itself above water . When we came to the shore , I landed , and walked a little way into the country , which as far as I ...
... tide running at the rate of eight miles an hour : we found also many rocks and fhoals , but all the danger shows itself above water . When we came to the shore , I landed , and walked a little way into the country , which as far as I ...
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... tide of flood , but I kept my ftation with the Dolphin till I should have a leading wind , and the wind shifting to the eastward , I weighed about five o'clock in the afternoon , intending to go up with the evening flood : before I ...
... tide of flood , but I kept my ftation with the Dolphin till I should have a leading wind , and the wind shifting to the eastward , I weighed about five o'clock in the afternoon , intending to go up with the evening flood : before I ...
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