Narrative of a Voyage Round the World, in the Uranie and Physicienne Corvettes, Commanded by Captain Freycinet, During the Years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820 |
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... distance , acquires a degree of importance ; and almost any nar- rative of that kind is sure to excite curiosity , if for no other reason than that the author has returned from the Antipodes . It must , however , be admitted to be ...
... distance , acquires a degree of importance ; and almost any nar- rative of that kind is sure to excite curiosity , if for no other reason than that the author has returned from the Antipodes . It must , however , be admitted to be ...
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... distance , or rendezvous at the Malouine Islands ; Captain Freycinet determined on the latter . The Academy has received from this excellent officer complete verbal details of the shipwreck of the Uranie , which took place in French Bay ...
... distance , or rendezvous at the Malouine Islands ; Captain Freycinet determined on the latter . The Academy has received from this excellent officer complete verbal details of the shipwreck of the Uranie , which took place in French Bay ...
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... distance sailed amounts to about 23,600 leagues , of 25 to a degree . II . PENDULUM OBSERVATIONS . The figure of the earth may be equally deduced from the comparison of the number of oscillations made every twenty - four hours , by the ...
... distance sailed amounts to about 23,600 leagues , of 25 to a degree . II . PENDULUM OBSERVATIONS . The figure of the earth may be equally deduced from the comparison of the number of oscillations made every twenty - four hours , by the ...
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... distance in latitude . Admitting this observation to be correct , it is difficult to over - rate the value which observations made at Cape Horn , whose southern latitude is 55 ° . 59 ' , would have possessed in this investigation . Very ...
... distance in latitude . Admitting this observation to be correct , it is difficult to over - rate the value which observations made at Cape Horn , whose southern latitude is 55 ° . 59 ' , would have possessed in this investigation . Very ...
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... order of the different places of rendezvous , we find first , seventeen series of distances from the sun to the moon , which will furnish another determination of the longitude of Rio Janeiro , and THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES . XV.
... order of the different places of rendezvous , we find first , seventeen series of distances from the sun to the moon , which will furnish another determination of the longitude of Rio Janeiro , and THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES . XV.
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Page 221 - NNW course, for ten of which there had been, strictly speaking, no land, as the flood made the surrounding country a perfect sea; the banks of the river were heavily timbered; and many large spaces within our view, covered with the common reed, were also encircled by large trees.
Page 222 - ... over the plain of reeds which surrounded us ; the river decreasing in depth from upwards of twenty feet, to less than five feet, and flowing over a bottom of tenacious blue mud ; and the current still running with nearly the same rapidity, as when the water was confined within the banks of the river. This point of junction with interior waters, or where the Macquarie ceased to have the form of a river, is in latitude 30° 45" south, and longitude 147" 10
Page 223 - August, and finding I was surrounded by bogs, I was reluctantly compelled to take a more easterly course, having practically proved that the country could not be traversed on any point deviating from the main range of hills which bound the interior ; although partial dry portions of level alluvial land...
Page 222 - ... barren wet marsh, overrun with a species of polygonum, and not offering a single dry spot to which our course might be directed ; and, that there was no probability of finding any in that direction, I had a certain knowledge from the observations made during the former expedition. «« To circle the flooded country to the...
Page 217 - ... through a perfectly level country, barren in the extreme, and being evidently at periods entirely under water. To this point it had been gradually diminishing, and spreading its waters over stagnated lagoons and morasses, without receiving any stream that we knew of during the whole extent of its course. The banks were not more than three feet high, and the marks of flood on the shrubs and bushes...
Page 87 - I have seen," says a recent French traveller, " yes, I have myself seen, two young ladies (of Rio) whose countenances wore the expression of mildness and benevolence, endeavour by way of pastime, to cut, at a certain distance, with a whip, the face of a negro whom they had ordered not to stir from the spot. This exercise seemed to amuse them. I would mention their names, if their father, who came in after the first essay, had not severely reprimanded them for their cruelty.
Page 225 - I should have hesitated to have attempted the passage, without assistance to the sea-ward. As it is, we are indebted for our preservation, and that of the horses, to the providential discovery of a small boat on the beach, which the men with the most cheerful alacrity carried upwards of ninety miles on their shoulders, thereby enabling us to overcome obstacles otherwise insurmountable. Until within these few days, I hoped to have had the satisfaction to report the return of the expedition without...
Page 221 - ... this port to-day ; and circumstances rendering it necessary that Mr Evans should proceed to Newcastle, I embrace the opportunity to make to your Excellency a brief report of the route pursued by the western expedition entrusted to my direction.
Page 222 - To assert positively that we were on the margin of the lake or sea into which this great body of water is discharged, might reasonably be deemed a conclusion which has nothing but conjecture for its basis ; but if an opinion may be permitted to be hazarded from actual appearances, mine is decidedly in favour of our being in the immediate vicinity of an inland sea, or lake, most probably a shoal one, and gradually filling up by immense depositions from the...