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 2W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand., 1773 - 676 Seiten |
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... thought to be the principal advantages of a liberal fortune , and to apply his revenue not in procuring the pleasures of lei- sure and ease , but in the pursuit of his favourite study , through a series of fatigue and danger , which ...
... thought to be the principal advantages of a liberal fortune , and to apply his revenue not in procuring the pleasures of lei- sure and ease , but in the pursuit of his favourite study , through a series of fatigue and danger , which ...
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... thought would improve or embellifh the narrative . This was an offer of which I gladly and thankfully accepted : I knew the ad- vantage would be great , for few philofophers have fur- nished materials for accounts of voyages undertaken ...
... thought would improve or embellifh the narrative . This was an offer of which I gladly and thankfully accepted : I knew the ad- vantage would be great , for few philofophers have fur- nished materials for accounts of voyages undertaken ...
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... thought to be one animal , but upon being put into a glass of water they foon feparated , and swam about very briskly . These animals are of a new genus , to which Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander gave the name of Dagyfa , from the likeness ...
... thought to be one animal , but upon being put into a glass of water they foon feparated , and swam about very briskly . These animals are of a new genus , to which Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander gave the name of Dagyfa , from the likeness ...
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... thought extraordinary that no naturalist had hitherto taken notice of the Dagyfa , as the fea abounds with them not twenty leagues from the coaft of Spain ; but , unfortunately for the cause of science , there are but very few of those ...
... thought extraordinary that no naturalist had hitherto taken notice of the Dagyfa , as the fea abounds with them not twenty leagues from the coaft of Spain ; but , unfortunately for the cause of science , there are but very few of those ...
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... thought of , if the English had not introduced wine veffels which are too big to be carried by hand , and which , therefore , are dragged about the town upon these machines . One reason , perhaps , why art and industry have done fo ...
... thought of , if the English had not introduced wine veffels which are too big to be carried by hand , and which , therefore , are dragged about the town upon these machines . One reason , perhaps , why art and industry have done fo ...
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