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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... fuch obfervation . In confequence of these refolutions , it was re- commended to his Majesty , in a memorial from the Society , dated February 1768 , that he would be pleased to order fuch an obfervation to be made ; upon which his ...
... fuch obfervation . In confequence of these refolutions , it was re- commended to his Majesty , in a memorial from the Society , dated February 1768 , that he would be pleased to order fuch an obfervation to be made ; upon which his ...
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... fuch fen- timents and obfervations as my fubject should fuggeft : they are not indeed numerous , and when they occur , are always curfory and fhort ; for no- thing would have been more abfurd than to in- terrupt an interesting narrative ...
... fuch fen- timents and obfervations as my fubject should fuggeft : they are not indeed numerous , and when they occur , are always curfory and fhort ; for no- thing would have been more abfurd than to in- terrupt an interesting narrative ...
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... in their prefence , and fuch emendations as they fuggested were made . In order thus to authen- ticate the voyage of Captain Cook , the account of it was first written , because it was expected a 2 of GENERAL INTRODUCTION . vil.
... in their prefence , and fuch emendations as they fuggested were made . In order thus to authen- ticate the voyage of Captain Cook , the account of it was first written , because it was expected a 2 of GENERAL INTRODUCTION . vil.
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... fuch a race of hu- man beings , or of an entire skeleton , can be ad- mitted as a proof of their existence . Turner , the naturalift , reports , that in the year 1610 , the thigh bone of a man was fhewn in London , who must have been of ...
... fuch a race of hu- man beings , or of an entire skeleton , can be ad- mitted as a proof of their existence . Turner , the naturalift , reports , that in the year 1610 , the thigh bone of a man was fhewn in London , who must have been of ...
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... fuch a ftature that the people on board their veffels called them giants . Such is the evidence of past times ; we shall now confider that of the age in which we live . In 1704 , the Captains Harrington and Carman , who com- manded two ...
... fuch a ftature that the people on board their veffels called them giants . Such is the evidence of past times ; we shall now confider that of the age in which we live . In 1704 , the Captains Harrington and Carman , who com- manded two ...
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