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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... less than five months . It will probably be thought by many Readers , that I have related the nautical events too minutely ; but it must be re- membered , that minutely to relate these events was the great object of the work . It was in ...
... less than five months . It will probably be thought by many Readers , that I have related the nautical events too minutely ; but it must be re- membered , that minutely to relate these events was the great object of the work . It was in ...
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... less than the fight of fuch a race of human beings , or of an entire skeleton , can be ad- mitted as a proof of their existence . Turner , the naturalist , reports , that in the year 1610 , the thigh bone of a man was fhewn in London ...
... less than the fight of fuch a race of human beings , or of an entire skeleton , can be ad- mitted as a proof of their existence . Turner , the naturalist , reports , that in the year 1610 , the thigh bone of a man was fhewn in London ...
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... less fubject to illufion . " I affirm , fays Knivet , that when I was at Port Defire I measured feveral dead bodies that I found buried there , which were from fourteen to fixteen spans high , and saw tracks in the fand which must have ...
... less fubject to illufion . " I affirm , fays Knivet , that when I was at Port Defire I measured feveral dead bodies that I found buried there , which were from fourteen to fixteen spans high , and saw tracks in the fand which must have ...
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... thofe of an eagle , except that they were not so sharp , and the wings , when they were extended , measured , from point to point , no less than twelve feet . The 1764 . November . Wednef . 21 . Thursday 22 ROUND THE WORLD . 15.
... thofe of an eagle , except that they were not so sharp , and the wings , when they were extended , measured , from point to point , no less than twelve feet . The 1764 . November . Wednef . 21 . Thursday 22 ROUND THE WORLD . 15.
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... less than four fathom and an half , which is feven and twenty feet . The tide indeed in this place is fuch as perhaps it is not in any other . It happened by fome accident that one of our men fell overboard ; the boats were all along ...
... less than four fathom and an half , which is feven and twenty feet . The tide indeed in this place is fuch as perhaps it is not in any other . It happened by fome accident that one of our men fell overboard ; the boats were all along ...
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