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Identifier: accountofvoyages03hawk (find matches)
Title: 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: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, esq.;
Year: 1773 (1770s)
Authors: Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773, comp. cn Byron, John, 1723-1786. cn Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795 Carteret, Philip, d. 1796 Cook, James, 1728-1779. cn Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820. 2n
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: London, Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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king that there isno continent to the northward of latitude 40° S.; of what maylie farther to the fouthward than 400 I can give no opinion;but I am fo far from wilhing to difcourage any futureattempt, finally to determine a queftion which has long beenan object of attention to many nations; that now this voyagehas reduced the only poffible fcite of a continent in thefouthern hemifpherc, north of latitude 40°, to fo fmall a fpace, 4S0 LIEUTENANT COOKs VOYAGE, 6>c. i77°- fpace, I think it would be pity to leave that any longer tin-v ,- > examined, efpecially as the voyage may turn to good ac-count, belidcs determining the principal queftion, if no con-tinent ihould be found, by the difcovery of new iilands inthe Tropical regions, of which there is probably a greatnumber, that no European veffel has ever yet vifited. Tupiafrom time to time gave us an account of about one hundredand thirty, and in a chart drawn by his own hand, he actu-ally laid down no lefs than feventy-four. AN
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Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773, comp. cn; Byron, John, 1723-1786. cn; Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795; Carteret, Philip, d. 1796; Cook, James, 1728-1779. cn;

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