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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... diftant fituation , in confequence of approaching it after a fea- voyage . MIZEN , the aftermost or hindmost of the fixed fails of a hip . MOORING , the act of confining and fecuring a fhip in a particular station , by chains or cables ...
... diftant fituation , in confequence of approaching it after a fea- voyage . MIZEN , the aftermost or hindmost of the fixed fails of a hip . MOORING , the act of confining and fecuring a fhip in a particular station , by chains or cables ...
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... diftant object , to which the fight or paffage is not intercepted by fomething lying , or coming between . Thus , to be open with any place , is to be oppofite to it ; as the entry of a port , road , or haven . OVER - HAULING , the act ...
... diftant object , to which the fight or paffage is not intercepted by fomething lying , or coming between . Thus , to be open with any place , is to be oppofite to it ; as the entry of a port , road , or haven . OVER - HAULING , the act ...
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... diftant object by the compafs , in order to discover the angle which it makes with the nearest meridian . SHEET , a rope faftened to one or both the lower corners of a fail to extend and retain it in a particular ftation . SHROUDS , a ...
... diftant object by the compafs , in order to discover the angle which it makes with the nearest meridian . SHEET , a rope faftened to one or both the lower corners of a fail to extend and retain it in a particular ftation . SHROUDS , a ...
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... diftant about three leagues ; the Steeple rock S. W. by W. the northermost land N. N. W .; and two rocks , which are covered at half tide , and lie at the fouthermost extremity of a reef which runs from the fame land , N. E. by N. I ...
... diftant about three leagues ; the Steeple rock S. W. by W. the northermost land N. N. W .; and two rocks , which are covered at half tide , and lie at the fouthermost extremity of a reef which runs from the fame land , N. E. by N. I ...
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... diftant thirty - four leagues . The variation here was 19 ° E. Thursday 6 . Friday 7 . We continued our courfe the next day with a pleasant gale and fine weather , fo that we began to think that this part of the world was not wholly ...
... diftant thirty - four leagues . The variation here was 19 ° E. Thursday 6 . Friday 7 . We continued our courfe the next day with a pleasant gale and fine weather , fo that we began to think that this part of the world was not wholly ...
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