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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... Longitude is settled by Astronomical Observations . 170 Weft Longitude from the Meridian of Greenwich . 160 * Var 7-30 E Var foE Sep.1.1769 Pitcairns I. Var3-10 E. Cap Carteret's Track Var2-39 E. Track * Lieut . Cooks Track Var 4-1 E ...
... Longitude is settled by Astronomical Observations . 170 Weft Longitude from the Meridian of Greenwich . 160 * Var 7-30 E Var foE Sep.1.1769 Pitcairns I. Var3-10 E. Cap Carteret's Track Var2-39 E. Track * Lieut . Cooks Track Var 4-1 E ...
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... longitude in this voyage is reckoned from the meridian of London , west to 180 degrees , and east afterwards . ] ON 1764 . June . N the 21st of June 1764 , I failed from the Downs , with his Majefty's fhip the Dol- phin , and the Tamar ...
... longitude in this voyage is reckoned from the meridian of London , west to 180 degrees , and east afterwards . ] ON 1764 . June . N the 21st of June 1764 , I failed from the Downs , with his Majefty's fhip the Dol- phin , and the Tamar ...
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... longitude 51 ° W .; the va- 1764 . riation 13 ° E .: the prevailing winds here were wefterly , so that being continually driven to the Sunday 4 . eastward , we foresaw that it would not be easy to • get in with the coaft of Patagonia ...
... longitude 51 ° W .; the va- 1764 . riation 13 ° E .: the prevailing winds here were wefterly , so that being continually driven to the Sunday 4 . eastward , we foresaw that it would not be easy to • get in with the coaft of Patagonia ...
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... longitude 60 ° 5 ′ W .; and the variation 19 ° 30 ′ E. Tuesday 131 The next day , at four o'clock in the afternoon , the weather being extremely fine , the wind fhifted at once to the S. W. and began to blow fresh , the sky at the same ...
... longitude 60 ° 5 ′ W .; and the variation 19 ° 30 ′ E. Tuesday 131 The next day , at four o'clock in the afternoon , the weather being extremely fine , the wind fhifted at once to the S. W. and began to blow fresh , the sky at the same ...
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... longitude 63 ° 2 ′ W .; the variation 19 ° 41 ′ E. The next day I shaped my courfe by the chart in the account of Lord Anson's voyage , for Cape Blanco . In the evening it blew extremely hard at S. W. by S. fo that we brought to for the ...
... longitude 63 ° 2 ′ W .; the variation 19 ° 41 ′ E. The next day I shaped my courfe by the chart in the account of Lord Anson's voyage , for Cape Blanco . In the evening it blew extremely hard at S. W. by S. fo that we brought to for the ...
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