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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... fight , which at sunset bore from us S. 74 W. At this time the variation was 15 ° 4 ′ E. L 2 14 At eight o'clock in the morning of the 14th , having run one and twenty leagues S. 58 W. fince the preceding noon , it fell calm . We were ...
... fight , which at sunset bore from us S. 74 W. At this time the variation was 15 ° 4 ′ E. L 2 14 At eight o'clock in the morning of the 14th , having run one and twenty leagues S. 58 W. fince the preceding noon , it fell calm . We were ...
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... fight bore W. S.W. Friday 16 . 2 At day - break on the 16th , we discovered land bearing S. by W. and seemingly detached from the coast we were upon . About eight , a breeze fprung up , at N. by E. and we fteered directly for it . At ...
... fight bore W. S.W. Friday 16 . 2 At day - break on the 16th , we discovered land bearing S. by W. and seemingly detached from the coast we were upon . About eight , a breeze fprung up , at N. by E. and we fteered directly for it . At ...
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... fight W. by N. A head fea prevented us from making much way to the southward ; at seven in the evening the extremes of the land ftretched from S. W. by S. to N. by W .; and at fix leagues from the shore we had thirty - two fathom wa ...
... fight W. by N. A head fea prevented us from making much way to the southward ; at seven in the evening the extremes of the land ftretched from S. W. by S. to N. by W .; and at fix leagues from the shore we had thirty - two fathom wa ...
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... fight bore Monday z5 .. W. by N. and Cape Saunders N. by W. diftant eight leagues : at noon , it bore N. 20 W. fourteen leagues ; and our latitude by obfervation was 46 ° 36 ' . The gale continued , with heavy fqualls and a large hollow ...
... fight bore Monday z5 .. W. by N. and Cape Saunders N. by W. diftant eight leagues : at noon , it bore N. 20 W. fourteen leagues ; and our latitude by obfervation was 46 ° 36 ' . The gale continued , with heavy fqualls and a large hollow ...
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... fight , which had the appearance of an island , extended from N. E. by N. to N. W. by W. and feemed to be about five leagues diftant from the main ; the eastermost ledge of rocks bore S. S. E. distant one league and an half , and the ...
... fight , which had the appearance of an island , extended from N. E. by N. to N. W. by W. and feemed to be about five leagues diftant from the main ; the eastermost ledge of rocks bore S. S. E. distant one league and an half , and the ...
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