A Voyage to Terra Australia, Undertaken for the Purpose of Completing the Discovery of that Vast Country, and Prosecuted in the Years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator and Subsequently in the Armed Vessel Porpoise and Cumberland Schooner, ...1814 |
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Adventure Bay afterwards anchor anchorage appeared bank Bass beach bearings bight boat bore breeze Cape Cape Jervis Cape Leeuwin captain Cook chart cliffs coast compass Cove D'Entrecasteaux Diemen's Land discovery distance eastern eastward eight entrance examination extreme fathoms five leagues five miles FLINDERS four leagues four miles fresh water Funchal Furneaux furthest gulph Harbour hauled hills inlet island Isles islet Kanguroo keepers latitude longitude lying main land morning Mount named natives navigation nearly night noon north-east north-west northward Nuyts o'clock observed passage passed Port Dalrymple Port Jackson Port Lincoln Preservation Island reef river rocks rocky round sail sand sandy seen ship ship's head shoals shore sloop South Wales south-east south-west southward steered Strait tacked taken Tasman Terra Australis thence theodolite three leagues three miles tide Van Diemen's Land variation veered visible voyage weather Wednes western westward wind wood