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: Drawn Up from the Journals which Were Kept by the Several Commanders, and from the Papers of Sir Joseph Banks, Bart, Band 2W. Strahan, 1785 |
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... FOUR VOLUME S. Illuftrated with CUTS and CHARTS , relative to the Countries now firft discovered , or hitherto but imperfectly known . THE THIRD EDITION . VOL . II . LONDON : Printed for W. STRAHAN ; and T. CADELL in the Strand ...
... FOUR VOLUME S. Illuftrated with CUTS and CHARTS , relative to the Countries now firft discovered , or hitherto but imperfectly known . THE THIRD EDITION . VOL . II . LONDON : Printed for W. STRAHAN ; and T. CADELL in the Strand ...
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... four leagues within the Streight , or to find out any other place in which we might come to an anchor . At five o'clock , we could not fee , the land , notwithstanding its extreme height , though we were within less than half a mile of ...
... four leagues within the Streight , or to find out any other place in which we might come to an anchor . At five o'clock , we could not fee , the land , notwithstanding its extreme height , though we were within less than half a mile of ...
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... four leagues from the island which Sir John Narborough called Westminster Hall , from its refemblance to that building in a diftant view . The western point of this bay makes a very remarkable appearance , being a perpendicular plane ...
... four leagues from the island which Sir John Narborough called Westminster Hall , from its refemblance to that building in a diftant view . The western point of this bay makes a very remarkable appearance , being a perpendicular plane ...
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... four miles in a boat , and could not then be above four miles from the Western Ocean , yet he ftill faw a wide entrance to the S. W. The landing is every where good , there is plenty of wood and water , and muffels and wild geese in ...
... four miles in a boat , and could not then be above four miles from the Western Ocean , yet he ftill faw a wide entrance to the S. W. The landing is every where good , there is plenty of wood and water , and muffels and wild geese in ...
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... four o'clock in the morning , after furmounting many dangers and difficulties , we once more got abreast of Cape Pillar , with a light breeze at S. E. and a great swell , Between five and fix o'clock , just as we opened Cape Defeada ...
... four o'clock in the morning , after furmounting many dangers and difficulties , we once more got abreast of Cape Pillar , with a light breeze at S. E. and a great swell , Between five and fix o'clock , just as we opened Cape Defeada ...
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