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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... myself fufficiently apprised of the minutenefs that was ne- ceffary in this part of the work , fo that I was obliged to make many additions to it , after I had prepared my manuscript . It is however hoped , that those who read merely ...
... myself fufficiently apprised of the minutenefs that was ne- ceffary in this part of the work , fo that I was obliged to make many additions to it , after I had prepared my manuscript . It is however hoped , that those who read merely ...
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... myself master of the difpute concerning the existence or non - existence of a fouth- ern continent ; and if I had , I should not have thought my- self at liberty to take a part in it , in a work in which I was little more than an ...
... myself master of the difpute concerning the existence or non - existence of a fouth- ern continent ; and if I had , I should not have thought my- self at liberty to take a part in it , in a work in which I was little more than an ...
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... myself . We found it very narrow for near two miles , with a tide running at the rate of eight miles an hour : we found alfo many rocks and fhoals , but all the danger fhows itself above water . When we came to the shore , I landed ...
... myself . We found it very narrow for near two miles , with a tide running at the rate of eight miles an hour : we found alfo many rocks and fhoals , but all the danger fhows itself above water . When we came to the shore , I landed ...
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... of water , of which we began to be in great want . In the mean time , I went myself about twelve miles up the river in my boat , and the weather then growing bad , I went on fhore : the river , as far I went 20 COMMODORE BYRON's VOYAGE.
... of water , of which we began to be in great want . In the mean time , I went myself about twelve miles up the river in my boat , and the weather then growing bad , I went on fhore : the river , as far I went 20 COMMODORE BYRON's VOYAGE.
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... myself much farther to the northward than I Friday 7 . expected , and therefore fuppofed the fhip's way had been influenced by a current . I had now made eighty degrees cafting , which is the diftance from the main at which Pepys ...
... myself much farther to the northward than I Friday 7 . expected , and therefore fuppofed the fhip's way had been influenced by a current . I had now made eighty degrees cafting , which is the diftance from the main at which Pepys ...
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