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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... 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 it ...
... 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 it ...
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... leagues E. by S. from Cape Pillar : it is the first place which has any appearance of a bay within that Cape , and bears S. by E. , about four leagues from the island which Sir John Narborough called Westminster Hall , from its ...
... leagues E. by S. from Cape Pillar : it is the first place which has any appearance of a bay within that Cape , and bears S. by E. , about four leagues from the island which Sir John Narborough called Westminster Hall , from its ...
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... leagues deep . We found here a vaft fwell from the N. W. and the winds generally blew from the fame quarter ; yet we were fet every day twelve or fifteen miles to the northward of our ac- count . On Wednesday the 15th , at about four o ...
... leagues deep . We found here a vaft fwell from the N. W. and the winds generally blew from the fame quarter ; yet we were fet every day twelve or fifteen miles to the northward of our ac- count . On Wednesday the 15th , at about four o ...
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... leagues from Cape Victory , which is on the north fhore . Thus we cleared the western entrance of the Streight , which , in VOL . II . C my . 1767 . April . Wednef . 15 . 1767 . my opinion , is too dangerous for navigation ROUND THE ...
... leagues from Cape Victory , which is on the north fhore . Thus we cleared the western entrance of the Streight , which , in VOL . II . C my . 1767 . April . Wednef . 15 . 1767 . my opinion , is too dangerous for navigation ROUND THE ...
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... leagues from the Streight's mouth ; our latitude was 48 ° 39 ′ $ . , and we were , by account , 4 ° 33 ′ W. of Cape Pillar ; but from this time , till the 8th of May , the wind continued unfavourable , and blew a continued ftorm , with ...
... leagues from the Streight's mouth ; our latitude was 48 ° 39 ′ $ . , and we were , by account , 4 ° 33 ′ W. of Cape Pillar ; but from this time , till the 8th of May , the wind continued unfavourable , and blew a continued ftorm , with ...
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