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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... Rocks that lie near them . 190 CHAP . IV . The Paffage from the Streight of Magellan , to King George the Third's Iland , called Otaheite , in the South Sea , with an Account of the Difcovery of feveral other Islands , and a Defcription ...
... Rocks that lie near them . 190 CHAP . IV . The Paffage from the Streight of Magellan , to King George the Third's Iland , called Otaheite , in the South Sea , with an Account of the Difcovery of feveral other Islands , and a Defcription ...
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... rocks ; but that having continued in their hiding places many years , they faw in the air a young man who deftroyed the giants by thunderbolts , and thus reflored to them the poffeffion of their country . His guides alfo fhowed him du ...
... rocks ; but that having continued in their hiding places many years , they faw in the air a young man who deftroyed the giants by thunderbolts , and thus reflored to them the poffeffion of their country . His guides alfo fhowed him du ...
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... rock which they faid were im- preffed by the thunderbolts , and many bones of an extraor- dinary fize , which they believed to be remains of the giants ; but they did not pretend to know when the deluge hap- pened . " The Ynca ...
... rock which they faid were im- preffed by the thunderbolts , and many bones of an extraor- dinary fize , which they believed to be remains of the giants ; but they did not pretend to know when the deluge hap- pened . " The Ynca ...
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... rocks , fcarcely acceffible to any but themselves : and it appears from the account of Oliver de Noort , that when the Streight began to be frequented by European veffels , they hid themselves as foon as the ships were in fight , which ...
... rocks , fcarcely acceffible to any but themselves : and it appears from the account of Oliver de Noort , that when the Streight began to be frequented by European veffels , they hid themselves as foon as the ships were in fight , which ...
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... rock off the coaft of New Holland , the wind ceased , and that otherwife fhe must have been beaten to pieces ; but either the subsiding of the wind was a mere natural event or not ; if it was a natural event , providence is out of the ...
... rock off the coaft of New Holland , the wind ceased , and that otherwife fhe must have been beaten to pieces ; but either the subsiding of the wind was a mere natural event or not ; if it was a natural event , providence is out of the ...
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