 | Several Hands - 1774 - 622 Seiten
...courte he may juftly be faid to have difcovered and traced a country of greater extent * than any other in the known world that does not bear the name of a continent :' the length ef coaft along which he failed, reduced to a frrait line, amounting to near 2OOO miles j * fo that... | |
 | Frederic Hervey - 1779 - 704 Seiten
...Holland, the eaftern fide of which lieutenant Cook calltd New South Wales, is of a larger extent than any country in the known world that does not bear the name of a continent. The length of coaft which the Endeavour traverfed, reduced to a flrait line, is no lefs than 27 deg. of latitude, amounting... | |
 | 1785 - 456 Seiten
...events, as not to admit of a reparation. I fhall now give a more full and circumftantial defcription of each, in which, if fome things fhould happen to...twentyfeven degrees of latitude, amounting to near 2Oco miles, fo that its fquare furface muft be much more than equal to all Europe. To the fouthward... | |
 | 1791 - 822 Seiten
...fifth part of the world which is now difcovered to be of fp amazing a magnitude, that it is larger than any other country in the known world that does not bear the nam¿ of a continent.) New-Zealand had been difcovered by Tafman ; but no part of its pofition, except... | |
 | Robert Beatson - 1804 - 820 Seiten
...Holland, the eaftern fide of which Lieutenant Cook called New South Wales, is of greater extent than any country in the known world, that does not bear the name of continent. The length of coaft which the Endeavour traveifed, reduced to a ftraight line, is no lefs... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1813 - 368 Seiten
...repeated, the greater part will be found new. New Holland, or, as I have now called the eastern coast, New South Wales, is of a larger extent than any other...does not bear the name of a continent : the length of coast along which we sailed, reduced to a strait line, is no Jess than twenty-seven degrees of latitude,... | |
 | General history - 1814 - 798 Seiten
...repeated, the greater part will be found new. New Holland, or, as I have now called the eastern coast, New South Wales, is of a larger extent than any other...in the known world that does not bear the name of a'continent : The length of coast along which we sailed, reduced to a straight line, is no less than... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 550 Seiten
...repeated, the greater part will be found new. New Holland, or, as I have now called the eastern coast, New South Wales, is of a larger extent than any other...does not bear the name of a continent : The length of coast along which we sailed, reduced to a straight line, is no less than twenty-seven degrees of latitude,... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 534 Seiten
...repeated, the greater part will be found new. New Holland, or, as I have now called the eastern coast, New South Wales, is of a larger extent than any other...does not bear the name of a continent : The length of coast along which we sailed, reduced to a straight line, is no less than twenty-seven degrees of latitude,... | |
 | General history - 1815 - 802 Seiten
...late voyages have discovered to be of so amazing a magnitude, that, to use Captain Cook's words, it is of a larger extent than any other country in the known world, that does not bear the name of a continent.4 4. Tasman « What the learned editor asserts here, as to the full knowledge acquired by... | |
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New Holland, or, as I have now called the eastern coast, New South Wales, is of a larger extent than any other country in the known world that does not bear the name of a continent ; the length of coast along which we sailed, reduced to a straight line,... 
