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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... side consisted of one intire plank , fixty - three feet long , ten or twelve inches broad , and about an inch and quarter thick , and these were fitted and lafhed to the bottom part with great dexterity and ftrength . A confiderable ...
... side consisted of one intire plank , fixty - three feet long , ten or twelve inches broad , and about an inch and quarter thick , and these were fitted and lafhed to the bottom part with great dexterity and ftrength . A confiderable ...
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... side of the fhoal till two in the afternoon , when , judging that there was a fufficient depth of water upon it to allow paffage for the fhip , I fent the boat a - head to found , and upon her making the signal for more than five fathom ...
... side of the fhoal till two in the afternoon , when , judging that there was a fufficient depth of water upon it to allow paffage for the fhip , I fent the boat a - head to found , and upon her making the signal for more than five fathom ...
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... side of the ship , broke to a tremendous height the very next time it rofe ; fo that between us and deftruction there was only a dreary valley , no wider than the base of one wave , and even now the fea under us was unfathomable , at ...
... side of the ship , broke to a tremendous height the very next time it rofe ; fo that between us and deftruction there was only a dreary valley , no wider than the base of one wave , and even now the fea under us was unfathomable , at ...
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... side of which is a bay , which I called WEYMOUTH BAY : they lie in latitude 12 ° 42 ′ S. , longitude 217 ° 15 ′ W. At four o'clock in the afternoon the boats re- turned with two hundred and forty pounds of the meat of fhell - fifh ...
... side of which is a bay , which I called WEYMOUTH BAY : they lie in latitude 12 ° 42 ′ S. , longitude 217 ° 15 ′ W. At four o'clock in the afternoon the boats re- turned with two hundred and forty pounds of the meat of fhell - fifh ...
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... side of the paffage , bore S. 76 W. Between these two points we could fee no land , fo that we conceived hopes of having , at last , found a paffage into the Indian fea ; however , that I might be able to determine with more certainty ...
... side of the paffage , bore S. 76 W. Between these two points we could fee no land , fo that we conceived hopes of having , at last , found a paffage into the Indian fea ; however , that I might be able to determine with more certainty ...
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