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... Observations on the Currents and Tides , · • XXXIV . The Passage from New South Wales to New Guinea , with an Account of what happened upon landing there , XXXV . The Passage from New Guinea to the Island of Semau , and the Transac ...
... Observations on the Currents and Tides , · • XXXIV . The Passage from New South Wales to New Guinea , with an Account of what happened upon landing there , XXXV . The Passage from New Guinea to the Island of Semau , and the Transac ...
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... observations on the subject . For a man of science , learning , and ingenuity , no one perhaps has paid more attention to the signs of the weather than Mr Jones . See his Physiological Dis- quisitions , published at London 1781.-E. 6 ...
... observations on the subject . For a man of science , learning , and ingenuity , no one perhaps has paid more attention to the signs of the weather than Mr Jones . See his Physiological Dis- quisitions , published at London 1781.-E. 6 ...
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... observations . We are told too , in another work , that the na- tives of the Pellew Islands reckon their time by months , and not by years ; in which , however , we see they are inferior to the former as to extent of science . Now there ...
... observations . We are told too , in another work , that the na- tives of the Pellew Islands reckon their time by months , and not by years ; in which , however , we see they are inferior to the former as to extent of science . Now there ...
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... observe in Homer , that Proteus counts his sea- calves by fives and fives , that is , by his fingers . Several ... observations on this subject are well worthy of minute consideration . On such elements , the provision of nature , are ...
... observe in Homer , that Proteus counts his sea- calves by fives and fives , that is , by his fingers . Several ... observations on this subject are well worthy of minute consideration . On such elements , the provision of nature , are ...
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... Observations , before alluded to . A quotation from that work can scarcely fail to interest the reader , who will be after- wards favoured with a very curious description of what is said by Lawson to have been practised in North ...
... Observations , before alluded to . A quotation from that work can scarcely fail to interest the reader , who will be after- wards favoured with a very curious description of what is said by Lawson to have been practised in North ...
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afternoon anchor appeared ashore Banks and Dr Batavia Bay of Islands boat body Bolabola Botany Bay bread-fruit breeze called canoes Cape Cape Colville Cape Palliser Cape Saunders Cape Turnagain cloth coast cocoa-nut colour discovered distance Dr Solander earee east Endeavour River etoa fathom water fire fish five leagues four leagues half harbour head hills hogs houses Huaheine Indians inhabitants kind lance land in sight lies in latitude longitude Mercury Bay miles morning natives night noon northermost northward o'clock observed Otaha Otaheitans Otaheite piece pinnace plantains Poverty Bay reef resembling river rocks round sail sandy scarcely seemed seen Semau seven ship shoal shore side small islands soon south point southward steered tacked and stood thing three leagues tion told trees Tupia Ulietea westward whole wind women wood yawl
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Seite 37 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Seite 255 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Seite 235 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed; No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loathe his vegetable meal...
Seite 255 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths ; their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Seite 256 - In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider : God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
Seite 32 - Ordain'd to fire th' adoring sons of earth, With every charm of wisdom and of worth ; Ordain'd to light, with intellectual day, The mazy wheels of Nature as they play, Or, warm with Fancy's energy, to glow, And rival all but Shakspeare's name below.
Seite 198 - A prospect more rude and craggy is rarely to be met with ; for inland appears nothing but the summits of mountains of a stupendous height, and consisting of rocks that are totally barren and naked, except where they are covered with snow.
Seite 335 - By what means the inhabitants of this country are reduced to such a number as it can subsist, is not, perhaps, very easy to guess : whether, like the inhabitants of New Zealand, they are destroyed by the hands of each other in contests for food, whether they are swept off by accidental famine, or whether there is any cause that prevents the increase of the species, must be left for future adventurers to determine.
Seite 208 - W. To the north-west of Red Point, and a little way inland, stand.sa round hill, the top of which looks like the crown of a hat. In the afternoon of this day, we had a light breeze at NNW till five in the evening, when it fell calm : At this time, we were between three and four leagues from the shore, and had forty-eight fathom water : The variation by azimuth was 8° 48
Seite 5 - ... which he may do in about an hour, he will as completely fulfil his duty to his own and future generations, as the native of our less temperate climate can do by ploughing in the cold of winter, and reaping in the summer's heat, as often as these seasons return; even if, after he has procured bread for his present household, he should convert a surplus into money, and lay it up for his children.