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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... 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 Var 4-41E . 150 130 120.
... 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 Var 4-41E . 150 130 120.
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... observe a tranfit of the planet Venus over the fun's difc , which , according to aftrono- mical calculation , would happen in the year 1769 ; and that the islands called Marquefas de Men- doza , or those of Rotterdam or Amfterdam , were ...
... observe a tranfit of the planet Venus over the fun's difc , which , according to aftrono- mical calculation , would happen in the year 1769 ; and that the islands called Marquefas de Men- doza , or those of Rotterdam or Amfterdam , were ...
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... observed several hundred of birds flying before it , which expreffed their terror by loud fhrieks ; it lafted about twenty minutes , and then gradually fubfided . The Tamar fplit her main fail , but as fhe was to leeward of us , fhe had ...
... observed several hundred of birds flying before it , which expreffed their terror by loud fhrieks ; it lafted about twenty minutes , and then gradually fubfided . The Tamar fplit her main fail , but as fhe was to leeward of us , fhe had ...
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... observed that the grass was very good , and that it was in- termixed with a great number of peas in blossom . Among this luxuriance of herbage we saw many hundreds of birds feeding , which from their form , and the uncommon beauty of ...
... observed that the grass was very good , and that it was in- termixed with a great number of peas in blossom . Among this luxuriance of herbage we saw many hundreds of birds feeding , which from their form , and the uncommon beauty of ...
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... observed the shore to be rocky , and a furf to break with great violence upon it , I ordered all the men to put on cork- jackets , which had been fent with us to be made ufe of upon fuch occafions . By the help of thefe jackets , which ...
... observed the shore to be rocky , and a furf to break with great violence upon it , I ordered all the men to put on cork- jackets , which had been fent with us to be made ufe of upon fuch occafions . By the help of thefe jackets , which ...
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