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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... latitude 47 ° S. Our lati- tude was now 47 ° 22 ′ S. , longitude 65 ° 49 ′ W .; Port Defire bore S. 66 W. diftant twenty - three leagues ; and Pepys ' Island , according to Halley's Chart , E. N. distant thirty- four leagues . The ...
... latitude 47 ° S. Our lati- tude was now 47 ° 22 ′ S. , longitude 65 ° 49 ′ W .; Port Defire bore S. 66 W. diftant twenty - three leagues ; and Pepys ' Island , according to Halley's Chart , E. N. distant thirty- four leagues . The ...
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... latitude of 47 again . But a hard gale coming on , with a great sea , I brought to about fix o'clock in the evening under the main- fail ; and at fix o'clock the next morning , the wind being at W. S. W. we made fail again under our ...
... latitude of 47 again . But a hard gale coming on , with a great sea , I brought to about fix o'clock in the evening under the main- fail ; and at fix o'clock the next morning , the wind being at W. S. W. we made fail again under our ...
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... latitude 50 ° 33'S . Saturday 15 . longitude 66 ° 59 ′ W. we were overtaken about fix in the even- ing by the hardest gale at S. W. that I was ever in , with a sea ftill higher than any I had seen in going round Cape Horn with Lord ...
... latitude 50 ° 33'S . Saturday 15 . longitude 66 ° 59 ′ W. we were overtaken about fix in the even- ing by the hardest gale at S. W. that I was ever in , with a sea ftill higher than any I had seen in going round Cape Horn with Lord ...
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... latitude of Sandy Point to be 53 ° 10 ′ S. At eight in the morning , we weighed , and having failed five leagues from Sandy Point , in the direction of S. by E. E. we anchored again in thirty - two fathom , about a mile from the fhore ...
... latitude of Sandy Point to be 53 ° 10 ′ S. At eight in the morning , we weighed , and having failed five leagues from Sandy Point , in the direction of S. by E. E. we anchored again in thirty - two fathom , about a mile from the fhore ...
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... latitude was 51 ° 50 ' S. , longitude 69 ° 56 W .; the variation 20 ° E. On the 9th , having failed S. 67 E. our latitude was 52 ° 8'S . our longitude 68 ° 31 ′ W. and Cape Virgin Mary bore S. 83 W. diftant thirty - three leagues . On ...
... latitude was 51 ° 50 ' S. , longitude 69 ° 56 W .; the variation 20 ° E. On the 9th , having failed S. 67 E. our latitude was 52 ° 8'S . our longitude 68 ° 31 ′ W. and Cape Virgin Mary bore S. 83 W. diftant thirty - three leagues . On ...
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