. 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. â¢ROUND THE WOULD. I53 they are more weftward than 136^ c weft of Paris, fince the Spaniards fell in with them in coming from Otaheite to Peru: and it would have been neccflary, that they fhould make more than a good fouth-eaft courfe, with the trade winds fouth of the line, in order that they (hould run down 22° o' of eaft longitu
. 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. â¢ROUND THE WOULD. I53 they are more weftward than 136^ c weft of Paris, fince the Spaniards fell in with them in coming from Otaheite to Peru: and it would have been neccflary, that they fhould make more than a good fouth-eaft courfe, with the trade winds fouth of the line, in order that they (hould run down 22° o' of eaft longitude, wliiJc making only 14^ degrees of latitude. (A-~'''-i .^â Sf GREAT EQUATORIAL OCEAN. 28. Iflands of the South Sea, or of the Great Equatorial Ocean, between the 26th, and the loth degree of fouth latitude, and the fpace cora- prifed between the 130th degree of longitude, weft, and the 170th eaft of Pari;'. For all the iflands contained within thefe li- mits there is occafion only to refer M. De La Peroufe to the accounts of the voyages of By- ron, Bougainville, Carteret, Wallis, Furncaux, and Cook; he will find in them all the geogra- phical, phyfical, and hiftorical details, which may be ufcful to him in fearching for foms of thefe iflands, and in the ftay that he may be dif- pofeJ to make there. AVith regard to the an- ciently difcovered iflands in the fame feas, by Mcndana, in 1567, and 1595, Quiros and Tor- rez, in 1606, Le Maire and Schouten, in 1616, Abel Tafman, 'm 1642, and Roggewein, in 1722, they. 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 Antonio, Don, 1755-1820. London : Printed for J. Johnson . ..
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