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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... weather . AZIMUTH - COMPASS , an inftrument employed to difcover the magnetical azimuth or amplitude of any heavenly object . This operation is performed at fea , to find the exact variation of the magnetical needle . B. To BALANCE , to ...
... weather . AZIMUTH - COMPASS , an inftrument employed to difcover the magnetical azimuth or amplitude of any heavenly object . This operation is performed at fea , to find the exact variation of the magnetical needle . B. To BALANCE , to ...
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... weather beam , is on the weather fide of the ship . To BELAY , to faften a rope by winding it feveral times round a cleat , belaying - pin , or kevel . BENDING a fail , faftening it to its yard or ftay . BIGHT , the double part of a ...
... weather beam , is on the weather fide of the ship . To BELAY , to faften a rope by winding it feveral times round a cleat , belaying - pin , or kevel . BENDING a fail , faftening it to its yard or ftay . BIGHT , the double part of a ...
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... weather , & c . PORTS , the embrasures or , openings in the fide of a ship of war , wherein the artillery is ranged in battery , upon the decks above and below . HALF - PORTS , are what ftops that part of the port which when the gun is ...
... weather , & c . PORTS , the embrasures or , openings in the fide of a ship of war , wherein the artillery is ranged in battery , upon the decks above and below . HALF - PORTS , are what ftops that part of the port which when the gun is ...
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... WEATHER , is to fail to windward of fome faip , bank , or head - land . To WEAR , the fame as to veer , to perform the ope ; ration by which a ship , in changing her courfe from one board board to the other , turns her ftern to windward ...
... WEATHER , is to fail to windward of fome faip , bank , or head - land . To WEAR , the fame as to veer , to perform the ope ; ration by which a ship , in changing her courfe from one board board to the other , turns her ftern to windward ...
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... weather was fo hot , that the flesh ftunk in a few hours after they were killed . Thursday 2 . On Thursday the 2d of Auguft , we got again Auguft . under fail , with a large cargo of fowls , lean goats , and monkies , which the people ...
... weather was fo hot , that the flesh ftunk in a few hours after they were killed . Thursday 2 . On Thursday the 2d of Auguft , we got again Auguft . under fail , with a large cargo of fowls , lean goats , and monkies , which the people ...
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