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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... hand , almost as soon as it was brought to him . It was thought extraordinary that no naturalift had hitherto taken notice of the Dagyfa , as the fea abounds with them not twenty leagues from the coast of Spain ; but , unfortunately for ...
... hand , almost as soon as it was brought to him . It was thought extraordinary that no naturalift had hitherto taken notice of the Dagyfa , as the fea abounds with them not twenty leagues from the coast of Spain ; but , unfortunately for ...
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... hand , and which , therefore , are dragged about the town upon these machines . One reafon , perhaps , why art and industry have done fo little for Madeira is , Nature's having done fo much . The foil is very rich , and there is fuch a ...
... hand , and which , therefore , are dragged about the town upon these machines . One reafon , perhaps , why art and industry have done fo little for Madeira is , Nature's having done fo much . The foil is very rich , and there is fuch a ...
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... hand when it is held near them . We had received from Dr. Heberden , among other favours fome falt which he collected on the top of the mountain , where it is found in large quantities , and which he supposes to be the true natrum or ...
... hand when it is held near them . We had received from Dr. Heberden , among other favours fome falt which he collected on the top of the mountain , where it is found in large quantities , and which he supposes to be the true natrum or ...
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... hand , drew it out ; the pressure of the air against the other end keeping in the wa- ter which it contained ; to this end the person who wanted to drink applied his mouth , and the affiftant then taking his hand from the other , and ...
... hand , drew it out ; the pressure of the air against the other end keeping in the wa- ter which it contained ; to this end the person who wanted to drink applied his mouth , and the affiftant then taking his hand from the other , and ...
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... hand a pole about fix or feven feet long , at the end of which was tied a lantern : the number of lanterns was generally above two hundred , and the light they gave was fo great , that the people who saw it from the cabbin windows ...
... hand a pole about fix or feven feet long , at the end of which was tied a lantern : the number of lanterns was generally above two hundred , and the light they gave was fo great , that the people who saw it from the cabbin windows ...
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