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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... breeze at N. E. had carried us back again the length of Cape Pallifer , of which as the weather was clear we had a good view . Between the foot of the high land and the sea there is a low flat border , off which there are fome rocks ...
... breeze at N. E. had carried us back again the length of Cape Pallifer , of which as the weather was clear we had a good view . Between the foot of the high land and the sea there is a low flat border , off which there are fome rocks ...
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... breeze , which veered from the weft to the north , till noon , our latitude by obfervation was 42 ° 56 ′ S. and the high land that we were abreast of the preceding noon bore N. N. W. 1⁄2 W. In the afternoon we had a light breeze at ...
... breeze , which veered from the weft to the north , till noon , our latitude by obfervation was 42 ° 56 ′ S. and the high land that we were abreast of the preceding noon bore N. N. W. 1⁄2 W. In the afternoon we had a light breeze at ...
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... breeze at N. N. W. and N. till eight in the evening , when it became unsettled ; and at ten fixed at fouth : during the night , it blew with fuch violence that it brought us under our close reefed topfails . At eight the Monday 19. next ...
... breeze at N. N. W. and N. till eight in the evening , when it became unsettled ; and at ten fixed at fouth : during the night , it blew with fuch violence that it brought us under our close reefed topfails . At eight the Monday 19. next ...
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... breeze then fpringing up at E.N.E. we steered S.S.E. all night , edging off from the land , the hollow fwell fill continuing ; our depth of water was from fixty to feventy - five fathom . While we were becalmed , Mr. Banks , being out ...
... breeze then fpringing up at E.N.E. we steered S.S.E. all night , edging off from the land , the hollow fwell fill continuing ; our depth of water was from fixty to feventy - five fathom . While we were becalmed , Mr. Banks , being out ...
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... breeze at S.S.E. At noon , our latitude , by obfervation , was 45 ° 13 ′ S. At this time , being about a league and an half from the shore , we founded , but had no ground with seventy fathom : we had just passed a small nar- row ...
... breeze at S.S.E. At noon , our latitude , by obfervation , was 45 ° 13 ′ S. At this time , being about a league and an half from the shore , we founded , but had no ground with seventy fathom : we had just passed a small nar- row ...
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