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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... REEF , is to reduce the surface of the fail in propor- tion to the increase of the wind . " REEF alfo implies a chain of rocks , lying near the fur- face of the water . RIGING , a general name given to all the ropes em- ployed to ...
... REEF , is to reduce the surface of the fail in propor- tion to the increase of the wind . " REEF alfo implies a chain of rocks , lying near the fur- face of the water . RIGING , a general name given to all the ropes em- ployed to ...
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... reef which runs from the fame land , N. E. by N. I mention all these bearings particu- larly , because I think it may be of importance to future navigators , especially as the descriptions that have been given of this place , by the few ...
... reef which runs from the fame land , N. E. by N. I mention all these bearings particu- larly , because I think it may be of importance to future navigators , especially as the descriptions that have been given of this place , by the few ...
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... reef of rocks runs out S. E. by E. about two miles ; and at the distance of two cables ' length from this reef the water will fud- denly shoal from fixty - five to thirty - five and twen- ty fathom . The Point itself is very steep , so ...
... reef of rocks runs out S. E. by E. about two miles ; and at the distance of two cables ' length from this reef the water will fud- denly shoal from fixty - five to thirty - five and twen- ty fathom . The Point itself is very steep , so ...
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... - ceffary to keep near Elizabeth's Inland till the western fhore is but at a fhort diftance , and then a fouthern courfe may be fteered with great fafety , February . till the reef , which lies about four 5 till COMMODORE BYRON'S VOYAGE.
... - ceffary to keep near Elizabeth's Inland till the western fhore is but at a fhort diftance , and then a fouthern courfe may be fteered with great fafety , February . till the reef , which lies about four 5 till COMMODORE BYRON'S VOYAGE.
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... reef , which lies about four miles to the 1765 . northward of Saint Anne's Point , is in fight . At noon this day , the north point of Fresh Water Tuesday 19 . Bay bore W. by N .; and Saint Anne's Point S. by E. E. The French ship still ...
... reef , which lies about four miles to the 1765 . northward of Saint Anne's Point , is in fight . At noon this day , the north point of Fresh Water Tuesday 19 . Bay bore W. by N .; and Saint Anne's Point S. by E. E. The French ship still ...
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