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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... , does not deviate lefs from the common courfe of things than the gigantic ftature of the people in question . It appears , that during an hundred years , years , almost all navigators , of whatever country , viii GENERAL INTRODUCTION .
... , does not deviate lefs from the common courfe of things than the gigantic ftature of the people in question . It appears , that during an hundred years , years , almost all navigators , of whatever country , viii GENERAL INTRODUCTION .
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... things . That men have a strange propensity to the marvelous cannot be denied , nor that fear naturally magnifies its object ; but though it be allowed that the accounts of the Patagonians have in some instances been exaggerated , it is ...
... things . That men have a strange propensity to the marvelous cannot be denied , nor that fear naturally magnifies its object ; but though it be allowed that the accounts of the Patagonians have in some instances been exaggerated , it is ...
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... things which is best upon the whole , and that Providence occafionally inter- feres , and fupplies the defects of the conftitution in these particulars but this notion will appear not to be supported by thofe facts which are faid to be ...
... things which is best upon the whole , and that Providence occafionally inter- feres , and fupplies the defects of the conftitution in these particulars but this notion will appear not to be supported by thofe facts which are faid to be ...
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... things were not equally eafy to Omnipotence , we fhould fay that this might have . been done with lefs difficulty than a calm could be produced by fufpending the general laws of Nature which had brought on the gale . I have , however ...
... things were not equally eafy to Omnipotence , we fhould fay that this might have . been done with lefs difficulty than a calm could be produced by fufpending the general laws of Nature which had brought on the gale . I have , however ...
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... thing by means of the rope used for this purpose . LOG , a machine used to measure the ship's head - way , or the rate of her velocity as the advances through the fea . It is compofed of a reel and line , to which is fixed a finall ...
... thing by means of the rope used for this purpose . LOG , a machine used to measure the ship's head - way , or the rate of her velocity as the advances through the fea . It is compofed of a reel and line , to which is fixed a finall ...
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