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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... hands by the Lords Commif- fioners of the Admiralty for that purpose : and , with respect to the voyage of the Endeavour , from other papers equally authentic ; an affiftance which I have acknowledged in an introduction to the account ...
... hands by the Lords Commif- fioners of the Admiralty for that purpose : and , with respect to the voyage of the Endeavour , from other papers equally authentic ; an affiftance which I have acknowledged in an introduction to the account ...
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... hands , as well as in those of Captain Cook , the manufcript was left for a confiderable time after the reading . Commodore Byron alfo , Captain Wallis , and Captain Carteret , had the manufcripts of their refpective voyages to perufe ...
... hands , as well as in those of Captain Cook , the manufcript was left for a confiderable time after the reading . Commodore Byron alfo , Captain Wallis , and Captain Carteret , had the manufcripts of their refpective voyages to perufe ...
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... hands , that he would have failed on the voyage he is now mak . ing in less than five months . It will probably be thought by many Readers , that I have related the nautical events too mi- nutely ; but it must be remembered , that mi ...
... hands , that he would have failed on the voyage he is now mak . ing in less than five months . It will probably be thought by many Readers , that I have related the nautical events too mi- nutely ; but it must be remembered , that mi ...
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... hand of God and shall we not receive evil ? " The Supreme Being is equally wife and benevolent in the difpenfation of both evil and good , as means of effecting ultimate pur- poses worthy of his ineffable perfections ; so that whether ...
... hand of God and shall we not receive evil ? " The Supreme Being is equally wife and benevolent in the difpenfation of both evil and good , as means of effecting ultimate pur- poses worthy of his ineffable perfections ; so that whether ...
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... hands . I paffed over Torre's track in filence for the reafon mentioned already , I had never seen Mr. Dalrymple's book in which it was laid down ; I never had time to read for amufement , and my literary pursuits had not led me to that ...
... hands . I paffed over Torre's track in filence for the reafon mentioned already , I had never seen Mr. Dalrymple's book in which it was laid down ; I never had time to read for amufement , and my literary pursuits had not led me to that ...
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