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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... 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 they shade the ground , and here and there by the fides of a rill , is intirely burnt ...
... 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 they shade the ground , and here and there by the fides of a rill , is intirely burnt ...
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... hills , that there is scarcely a fingle object of luxury that grows either in Europe or the Indies , that might not be produced here . When we went to visit Dr. Heberden , who lives upon a confiderable ascent , about two miles from town ...
... hills , that there is scarcely a fingle object of luxury that grows either in Europe or the Indies , that might not be produced here . When we went to visit Dr. Heberden , who lives upon a confiderable ascent , about two miles from town ...
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... hills of this country are very high ; the highest , Pico Ruivo , rifes 5,068 feet , near an English mile , perpendicu- larly from its base , which is much higher than any land that has been measured in Great Britain . The fides of these ...
... hills of this country are very high ; the highest , Pico Ruivo , rifes 5,068 feet , near an English mile , perpendicu- larly from its base , which is much higher than any land that has been measured in Great Britain . The fides of these ...
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... hill near Santo Efpirito , then Cape St. Thomas , and then an island just without Cape Frio , which in fome maps is called the island of Frio , and which being high , with a hollow in the middle has the appear- ance of two islands when ...
... hill near Santo Efpirito , then Cape St. Thomas , and then an island just without Cape Frio , which in fome maps is called the island of Frio , and which being high , with a hollow in the middle has the appear- ance of two islands when ...
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... hill that commands the town . It is fupplied with water from the neighbouring hills , by an aqueduct , which is raifed upon two ftories of arches , and is faid in fome places to be at a great height from the ground , from which the ...
... hill that commands the town . It is fupplied with water from the neighbouring hills , by an aqueduct , which is raifed upon two ftories of arches , and is faid in fome places to be at a great height from the ground , from which the ...
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