. A voyage round the world in the years 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788 [microform]. Boussole (Frigate); Astrolabe (Frigate); Boussole (Frégate); Astrolabe (Frégate); Voyages around the world; Scientific expeditions; Voyages autour du monde; Expéditions scientifiques. ';r'J ROUND THE WORLD, 187 ntc in latitude 36° 40'*, immediately to the northward of the chain of mountains, (or Sierra) of Santa-Lucia. It is a vaft bay, much refembling that of Cadiz, with anchorage in four, fix, or eight fathom wa- ter, according as the anchor is let go nearer to or farther from the fliore: it is good holding ground
. A voyage round the world in the years 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788 [microform]. Boussole (Frigate); Astrolabe (Frigate); Boussole (Frégate); Astrolabe (Frégate); Voyages around the world; Scientific expeditions; Voyages autour du monde; Expéditions scientifiques. ';r'J ROUND THE WORLD, 187 ntc in latitude 36° 40'*, immediately to the northward of the chain of mountains, (or Sierra) of Santa-Lucia. It is a vaft bay, much refembling that of Cadiz, with anchorage in four, fix, or eight fathom wa- ter, according as the anchor is let go nearer to or farther from the fliore: it is good holding ground, fine fand. An interval of fome years elapfed without any profecution of thefe northern difco- vcries by Spain. The entrance and the fucceflive runs of numerous Englifli (hips in the Great Ocean, at length roufed its attention; and in 1775, the viceroy of Mexico, Don Antonio Maria Bucarelli, ordered an armament t* proceed in the infpedtion of the north-weft coafts of America, as far as 65°. Three fmall (hips were employed in this enterprize, which was entrufted to Don Juan de Ayala. The Hon. Daines Barrington tranllated into EngUflithe journal of Francifco Antonio Maurelle, pilot of the fecond fliip, commanded by Don. J. F. De La Bo- dega, and has printed it in his Mifcellanies (I^on- don, 1781, in 4to.) It is from the tranflation of Mr. Barrington, that the following abftrad of the voyage of the Spaniards is taken. * In the voyage that the Spaniards made, in 1775, '^ ^^^^ northern coaft of California, which is related hereafter, they fixed the latitude of the Port of Monterey at 36^ 44.' They. \i. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788; Milet de Mureau, Louis-Marie-Antoine Destouff, baron de, 1756-1825; Mourelle, Francisco Ant
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