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 Endeavor, Band 1W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773 |
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... fathom , but foon after came to an anchor in the chan- nel between the fhoal and the north fhore . 1765 . January . Sunday 6 . The next morning , about eight o'clock , we weighed , with Monday 7 . little wind at W. S. W. and fteered ...
... fathom , but foon after came to an anchor in the chan- nel between the fhoal and the north fhore . 1765 . January . Sunday 6 . The next morning , about eight o'clock , we weighed , with Monday 7 . little wind at W. S. W. and fteered ...
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... fathom . At fix in the evening , the wind shifted to the weftward , upon which we stood in for Eliza- beth's Bay , and anchored in ten fathom with very good ground ; the best anchoring however is in thirteen fathom , for there was but ...
... fathom . At fix in the evening , the wind shifted to the weftward , upon which we stood in for Eliza- beth's Bay , and anchored in ten fathom with very good ground ; the best anchoring however is in thirteen fathom , for there was but ...
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... fathom ; and when we had paffed it , we deepened it again to fifteen and fixteen fathom . We continued to fteer E. S. E. between the Third and Fourth Points of Sumatra , which are about ten leagues diftant from each other : the ...
... fathom ; and when we had paffed it , we deepened it again to fifteen and fixteen fathom . We continued to fteer E. S. E. between the Third and Fourth Points of Sumatra , which are about ten leagues diftant from each other : the ...
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OF | 185 |
GENERAL INTRODUCTION Page i | 194 |
An Explanation of the Nautical Terms not generally understood which | 207 |
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