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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... piece of pleafantry , I fhall only congratulate my correfpondent upon the tranfient gleam of good humour in which it was written , and difmifs him with my hearty wishes that such intervals for the future may be frequent and long . As to ...
... piece of pleafantry , I fhall only congratulate my correfpondent upon the tranfient gleam of good humour in which it was written , and difmifs him with my hearty wishes that such intervals for the future may be frequent and long . As to ...
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... piece of oak , convex on one fide , and concave on the other . It is used to faften upon the out- fide of the lower mafts , as an additional fecurity , to ftrengthen them when it becomes neceffary to carry an extraordinary preffure of ...
... piece of oak , convex on one fide , and concave on the other . It is used to faften upon the out- fide of the lower mafts , as an additional fecurity , to ftrengthen them when it becomes neceffary to carry an extraordinary preffure of ...
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... piece of timber , bolted to the main keel to preferve its lower - fide . KNEE , a crooked piece of timber , having two branches or arms , and generally used to connect the beams of a ship with her fides or timbers . LAGOON , a lake . L ...
... piece of timber , bolted to the main keel to preferve its lower - fide . KNEE , a crooked piece of timber , having two branches or arms , and generally used to connect the beams of a ship with her fides or timbers . LAGOON , a lake . L ...
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... piece of wood , forming the quadrant of a circle . The term log however is more particularly ap- plied to the latter . The log , is generally about a quar- ter of an inch thick , and five or fix inches from the an- gular point to the ...
... piece of wood , forming the quadrant of a circle . The term log however is more particularly ap- plied to the latter . The log , is generally about a quar- ter of an inch thick , and five or fix inches from the an- gular point to the ...
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... pieces of timber are to be joined together by the ends , if the ends are cut fquare , another piece is laid upon , and fastened to both , and this is called fearfing . SETING , the act of observing the fituation of any diftant object by ...
... pieces of timber are to be joined together by the ends , if the ends are cut fquare , another piece is laid upon , and fastened to both , and this is called fearfing . SETING , the act of observing the fituation of any diftant object by ...
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