New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals, Translations, and Abridgements, Volume 2Sir Richard Phillips, 1819 - Voyages and travels |
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... direction with the wind . If our cable should give way , we would remain in a narrow pass , between two mouths , engaged in a small space , where it was impossible to tack in the dark , or in- deed to take any other course for our ...
... direction with the wind . If our cable should give way , we would remain in a narrow pass , between two mouths , engaged in a small space , where it was impossible to tack in the dark , or in- deed to take any other course for our ...
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... direction ran through the parallels of lati- tude from 45 ° to 41 ° ; in crossing which , on our passage to the strait , there had been so great an error in our reckoning , which we accounted for by the setting of the water towards the ...
... direction ran through the parallels of lati- tude from 45 ° to 41 ° ; in crossing which , on our passage to the strait , there had been so great an error in our reckoning , which we accounted for by the setting of the water towards the ...
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... direction . This evening we saw a bird resembling a pigeon , of an ash- colour , having two forked feathers advancing much beyond the rest of the tail . In proportion as we advanced in the northern hemisphere , we found the winds to ...
... direction . This evening we saw a bird resembling a pigeon , of an ash- colour , having two forked feathers advancing much beyond the rest of the tail . In proportion as we advanced in the northern hemisphere , we found the winds to ...
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taining a particular Account of the Icebergs and other Phenomena which | |
Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Henderick Portenger | 1 |
Travels of M Burckhardt in Egypt and Nubia | 1 |
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