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, Band 3W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand., 1773 |
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... sea there is a low flat border , off which there are fome rocks that appear above water . Between this Cape and Cape Turnagain , the land near the shore is , in many places , low and flat , and has a green and pleafant appearance ; but ...
... sea there is a low flat border , off which there are fome rocks that appear above water . Between this Cape and Cape Turnagain , the land near the shore is , in many places , low and flat , and has a green and pleafant appearance ; but ...
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... sea , cannot poffibly be conceived , for as far inland as the eye can reach , nothing appears but the fummits of rocks , which stand so near together , that instead of vallies there are only fiffures between them . From the latitude of ...
... sea , cannot poffibly be conceived , for as far inland as the eye can reach , nothing appears but the fummits of rocks , which stand so near together , that instead of vallies there are only fiffures between them . From the latitude of ...
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... Seas . The northermost of these islands is called by the natives Eaheinomauwe , and the fouthermoft Tovy , or Tavai Poe- nammoo ; yet , as I have obferved before , we are not fure whether the name Tovy Poenammoo comprehends the whole ...
... Seas . The northermost of these islands is called by the natives Eaheinomauwe , and the fouthermoft Tovy , or Tavai Poe- nammoo ; yet , as I have obferved before , we are not fure whether the name Tovy Poenammoo comprehends the whole ...
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... fecurity of our faces . For this scarcity of animals upon the land , the sea , how- ever , makes an abundant recompenfe ; every cicek fwarm- E a ing 1770 . March . Birds . 2 March . Fish . 1770. ing with fish , which ROUND THE WORLD . 35.
... fecurity of our faces . For this scarcity of animals upon the land , the sea , how- ever , makes an abundant recompenfe ; every cicek fwarm- E a ing 1770 . March . Birds . 2 March . Fish . 1770. ing with fish , which ROUND THE WORLD . 35.
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... Sea iflands make their cloth ; but it is fo fcarce , that though the New Zealanders also make cloth of it , they have not enough for any other purpose than to wear as an ornament in the holes which they make in their ears , as I have ...
... Sea iflands make their cloth ; but it is fo fcarce , that though the New Zealanders also make cloth of it , they have not enough for any other purpose than to wear as an ornament in the holes which they make in their ears , as I have ...
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