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 Sir Joseph Banks, Bart, Band 1W. Strahan, 1785 |
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... bore W. S. W. S. dif- tant four leagues : but we were ftill at a loss for Monday 19. Port Defire , it being impoffible that any defcrip- tion fhould be more confused than that which Sir John Narborough has given of this harbour . I ...
... bore W. S. W. S. dif- tant four leagues : but we were ftill at a loss for Monday 19. Port Defire , it being impoffible that any defcrip- tion fhould be more confused than that which Sir John Narborough has given of this harbour . I ...
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... the extreme points of the harbour's mouth at low wa- ter bore from E. by S. S. to E .; and the Steeple rock S. E.E. We had here , at low water , but I 1764 . November . fix fathom ; but at fpring fix 20 COMMODORE BYRON's VOYAGE.
... the extreme points of the harbour's mouth at low wa- ter bore from E. by S. S. to E .; and the Steeple rock S. E.E. We had here , at low water , but I 1764 . November . fix fathom ; but at fpring fix 20 COMMODORE BYRON's VOYAGE.
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... bore S. 66 W. distant twenty - three leagues ; and Pepys ' Island , according to Halley's Chart , E. N. diftant thirty - four leagues . The variation here was 19 ° E. Thursday 6 . Friday 7 . We continued our courfe the next day with a ...
... bore S. 66 W. distant twenty - three leagues ; and Pepys ' Island , according to Halley's Chart , E. N. diftant thirty - four leagues . The variation here was 19 ° E. Thursday 6 . Friday 7 . We continued our courfe the next day with a ...
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... bore S. 80 ° 53 ′ W. diftant ninety - four leagues ; and in this fituation I faw a great quantity of rock- weed , and many birds . We continued to ftand to the northward the next day under our courfes , Monday 10 . with a hard gale from ...
... bore S. 80 ° 53 ′ W. diftant ninety - four leagues ; and in this fituation I faw a great quantity of rock- weed , and many birds . We continued to ftand to the northward the next day under our courfes , Monday 10 . with a hard gale from ...
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... bore S. 19 ° 50 ′ W. diftant nineteen leagues . As we had little or no wind we could not get in with the land this day ; the next morns Wednef . 19 ing , however , it being northerly , I ftood in to a deep bay , at the bottom of which ...
... bore S. 19 ° 50 ′ W. diftant nineteen leagues . As we had little or no wind we could not get in with the land this day ; the next morns Wednef . 19 ing , however , it being northerly , I ftood in to a deep bay , at the bottom of which ...
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