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: Drawn Up from the Journals which Were Kept by the Several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq, Band 2W. Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand, 1773 First edition of the narrative of Cook's first voyage. Volume I contains accounts of the voyages of Byron, Carteret and Wallis, including the discovery of Tahiti; volumes II and III contain Hawkesworth's edited account of Captain [then Lieutenant] Cook's voyage. Cook had been commissioned to observe the transit of Venus from Tahiti and to carry on John Byron's survey and exploration of the seas between Cape Horn and New Holland, and he added more than 5000 miles of coastline to Admiralty charts for Tahiti, Australia and the Great Barrier Reff and New Zealand which he circumnavigated. |
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... first Interview · with Oberea , the Perfon , who , when the Dolphin was here , was fuppofed to be Queen of the land , with a Defcription of the Fort : CHAP . XI . 99 € The Obfervatory fet up ; the Quadrant ftolen , and Confequences of ...
... first Interview · with Oberea , the Perfon , who , when the Dolphin was here , was fuppofed to be Queen of the land , with a Defcription of the Fort : CHAP . XI . 99 € The Obfervatory fet up ; the Quadrant ftolen , and Confequences of ...
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... first meridian being always fuppofed to pass through Greenwich ; variation of the needle 21 ° 4 ′ W. During this course , Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander had an opportunity of obferving many marine animals , of which no naturalift has ...
... first meridian being always fuppofed to pass through Greenwich ; variation of the needle 21 ° 4 ′ W. During this course , Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander had an opportunity of obferving many marine animals , of which no naturalift has ...
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... first approached from the fea , it has a very beautiful appearance ; the fides of the hills being entirely covered with vines almost as high as the eye can diftinguish ; and the vines are green when every kind of herbage , except where ...
... first approached from the fea , it has a very beautiful appearance ; the fides of the hills being entirely covered with vines almost as high as the eye can diftinguish ; and the vines are green when every kind of herbage , except where ...
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... first vineyard after the flood : the grapes are put into a square wooden vessel , the dimenfions of which are proportioned to the fize of the vineyard to which it belongs ; the fervants then , B 2 1768 . September . 1768 . September ...
... first vineyard after the flood : the grapes are put into a square wooden vessel , the dimenfions of which are proportioned to the fize of the vineyard to which it belongs ; the fervants then , B 2 1768 . September . 1768 . September ...
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... first impulfe to change . He who proposes to affift the artificer or the hufbandman by a new application of the principles of philosophy , or the powers of mechanifm , will find , that his having hitherto done without them , will be a ...
... first impulfe to change . He who proposes to affift the artificer or the hufbandman by a new application of the principles of philosophy , or the powers of mechanifm , will find , that his having hitherto done without them , will be a ...
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