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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... Variation of the Needle at feveral Ports , and Situations at Sea , from Observations made on board his Majefy's Ship the DOLPHIN ; and her Nautical Reckoning during the Voyage which • She made round the World in the Years 1766 , 1767 ...
... Variation of the Needle at feveral Ports , and Situations at Sea , from Observations made on board his Majefy's Ship the DOLPHIN ; and her Nautical Reckoning during the Voyage which • She made round the World in the Years 1766 , 1767 ...
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... VARIATION of the COMPASS , as obferved on board of the SWALLOw , in her Voyage round the Globe , in the Years , 1766 , 1767 , 1768 , and 1769 . 449 , GENERAL GENERAL INTRODUCTION . HTS IS Majefty , foon after his CONTENT S.
... VARIATION of the COMPASS , as obferved on board of the SWALLOw , in her Voyage round the Globe , in the Years , 1766 , 1767 , 1768 , and 1769 . 449 , GENERAL GENERAL INTRODUCTION . HTS IS Majefty , foon after his CONTENT S.
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... variation of the magnetical needle . B. To BALANCE , to contract a fail into a narrower compass , in a ftorm , by retrenching or folding up a part of it at one corner . BEAMS , ftrong thick pieces of timber , ftretching across the fhip ...
... variation of the magnetical needle . B. To BALANCE , to contract a fail into a narrower compass , in a ftorm , by retrenching or folding up a part of it at one corner . BEAMS , ftrong thick pieces of timber , ftretching across the fhip ...
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... variation 13 ° E .: the prevailing winds here were westerly , so that be- ing continually driven to the eastward , we forefaw that it would not be easy to get in with the coast of Patagonia . On the 10th , we obferved the water to ...
... variation 13 ° E .: the prevailing winds here were westerly , so that be- ing continually driven to the eastward , we forefaw that it would not be easy to get in with the coast of Patagonia . On the 10th , we obferved the water to ...
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... variation 11 ° E. On Monday the 12th , about four o'clock in the afternoon , as I was walking on the quarter - deck , all the people upon the forecastle called out at once " Land right ahead ; " it was then very black almost round the ...
... variation 11 ° E. On Monday the 12th , about four o'clock in the afternoon , as I was walking on the quarter - deck , all the people upon the forecastle called out at once " Land right ahead ; " it was then very black almost round the ...
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