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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... appearance of the country , its hills , vallies , mountains , and woods , with the depth of water , and every other particular that might enable future navigators easily to find , and safely to visit every part of it . I was not indeed ...
... appearance of the country , its hills , vallies , mountains , and woods , with the depth of water , and every other particular that might enable future navigators easily to find , and safely to visit every part of it . I was not indeed ...
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... appearance of our ships upon this coaft , at length determined them to quit it as a fettled habitation , returning only at particular seasons of the year , and taking up their conftant refidence in the in- terior part of the country ...
... appearance of our ships upon this coaft , at length determined them to quit it as a fettled habitation , returning only at particular seasons of the year , and taking up their conftant refidence in the in- terior part of the country ...
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... appearance of the country than any words poffibly " can , " may be true ; but does it therefore follow that I am in fault because engravings were not made from them ? It was left to better judges to select the drawings , and I did not ...
... appearance of the country than any words poffibly " can , " may be true ; but does it therefore follow that I am in fault because engravings were not made from them ? It was left to better judges to select the drawings , and I did not ...
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... appearance : the next day we Friday 13 . stood in for the road of Funchiale , where , about three o'clock Friday 6 . in the afternoon , we came to an anchor . In the morning of Saturday the 14th , I waited upon the Governor , who re ...
... appearance : the next day we Friday 13 . stood in for the road of Funchiale , where , about three o'clock Friday 6 . in the afternoon , we came to an anchor . In the morning of Saturday the 14th , I waited upon the Governor , who re ...
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... appearance , is governed by the Thursday 13. Viceroy of Brazil , who is perhaps , in fact , as absolute a fovereign as any upon earth . When I vifited him , he re- ceived me in great form ; above fixty officers were drawn up before the ...
... appearance , is governed by the Thursday 13. Viceroy of Brazil , who is perhaps , in fact , as absolute a fovereign as any upon earth . When I vifited him , he re- ceived me in great form ; above fixty officers were drawn up before the ...
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