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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... kind we had feen upon this coaft , though we fell in with fome a few days before we made land . 2 At day - break , the wind freshened , and before noon we had a ftrong gale at N. N. E. At eight in the morning we faw the land extending ...
... kind we had feen upon this coaft , though we fell in with fome a few days before we made land . 2 At day - break , the wind freshened , and before noon we had a ftrong gale at N. N. E. At eight in the morning we faw the land extending ...
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... kind we had ob- ferved in different parts of this country , particularly in Mercury Bay : we continued to stand close upon a wind to the weftward , and at fun - set the southermoft point of land bore N. 38 E. diftant four leagues , and ...
... kind we had ob- ferved in different parts of this country , particularly in Mercury Bay : we continued to stand close upon a wind to the weftward , and at fun - set the southermoft point of land bore N. 38 E. diftant four leagues , and ...
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... kind of European grain , plants , and fruit , would flourish here in the utmoft luxuriance : from the ve- getables that we found here , there is reafon to conclude , that the winters are milder than thofe in England , and we found the ...
... kind of European grain , plants , and fruit , would flourish here in the utmoft luxuriance : from the ve- getables that we found here , there is reafon to conclude , that the winters are milder than thofe in England , and we found the ...
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... kind of building , and indeed for every other purpose except masts ; for which , as I have already obferved , they are too hard , and too hea- vy : there is one in particular which , when we were upon the coaft , was rendered ...
... kind of building , and indeed for every other purpose except masts ; for which , as I have already obferved , they are too hard , and too hea- vy : there is one in particular which , when we were upon the coaft , was rendered ...
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... kind of creffes , which grew in great abundance upon all parts of the fea - fhore . We also , once or twice , met with a plant like what the country people in England call Lamb's quarters , or Fat - hen , which we ' boiled instead of ...
... kind of creffes , which grew in great abundance upon all parts of the fea - fhore . We also , once or twice , met with a plant like what the country people in England call Lamb's quarters , or Fat - hen , which we ' boiled instead of ...
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