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 3W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand., 1773 |
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... feet broad , and three feet and an half deep ; the bottom was sharp , with ftrait fides like a wedge , and confifted of three lengths , hollowed out to about two inches , or an inch and an half thick , and well fastened together with ...
... feet broad , and three feet and an half deep ; the bottom was sharp , with ftrait fides like a wedge , and confifted of three lengths , hollowed out to about two inches , or an inch and an half thick , and well fastened together with ...
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... feet ten inches forward , and thirteen feet abaft ; and this I thought , with the difference that would be made by trimming the coals aft , would be fufficient ; for I found that the water rofe and fell perpendicularly eight feet at the ...
... feet ten inches forward , and thirteen feet abaft ; and this I thought , with the difference that would be made by trimming the coals aft , would be fufficient ; for I found that the water rofe and fell perpendicularly eight feet at the ...
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... feet long , and fome are not more than twenty : they are all raised upon posts , or piles , about four feet high , one end of which is driven into the ground , and upon the other end is laid a fubftantial floor of wood , fo that there ...
... feet long , and fome are not more than twenty : they are all raised upon posts , or piles , about four feet high , one end of which is driven into the ground , and upon the other end is laid a fubftantial floor of wood , fo that there ...
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CONTENTS | 7 |
CHAP VIII | 31 |
A Defcription of the Inhabitants their Habitations Apparel Orna | 42 |
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