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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... returned in the month of May in the year 1766 , and in the month of August following , the Dolphin was again fent out , under the command of Captain Wallis , with the Swal- low , commanded by Captain Carteret , in profe- cution of the ...
... returned in the month of May in the year 1766 , and in the month of August following , the Dolphin was again fent out , under the command of Captain Wallis , with the Swal- low , commanded by Captain Carteret , in profe- cution of the ...
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... returned by different routs to England . In the latter part of the year 1767 , it was re- folved , by the Royal Society , that it would be proper to fend perfons into fome part of the South Sea to observe a tranfit of the planet Venus ...
... returned by different routs to England . In the latter part of the year 1767 , it was re- folved , by the Royal Society , that it would be proper to fend perfons into fome part of the South Sea to observe a tranfit of the planet Venus ...
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... returned ; and it hav- ing been recommended to him by Lord Morton , when he went out , to fix on a proper place for this aftronomical obfervation , he , by letter , dated on board the Dolphin , the 18th of May 1768 , the day before he ...
... returned ; and it hav- ing been recommended to him by Lord Morton , when he went out , to fix on a proper place for this aftronomical obfervation , he , by letter , dated on board the Dolphin , the 18th of May 1768 , the day before he ...
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... returning only at particular feafons of the year , and taking up their conftant refidence in the interior part of the country . Lord Anfon was of opinion , that they refided statedly on the western fide of the Corde- liers , and vifited ...
... returning only at particular feafons of the year , and taking up their conftant refidence in the interior part of the country . Lord Anfon was of opinion , that they refided statedly on the western fide of the Corde- liers , and vifited ...
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... on another expedition ; and though he did not leave England till fome months afterwards , the manufcript was not returned to me till within a very short time of his departure , fo fo that I had no time to make myself mafter SECOND EDITION ,
... on another expedition ; and though he did not leave England till fome months afterwards , the manufcript was not returned to me till within a very short time of his departure , fo fo that I had no time to make myself mafter SECOND EDITION ,
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