A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland, etc. in the Year 1699

Nonfiction, History, Australia & Oceania
Cover of the book A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland, etc. in the Year 1699 by Captain William Dampier, B&R Samizdat Express
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Author: Captain William Dampier ISBN: 9781455302314
Publisher: B&R Samizdat Express Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Captain William Dampier
ISBN: 9781455302314
Publisher: B&R Samizdat Express
Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint:
Language: English
First published in 1729. "I had spent about 5 weeks in ranging off and on the coast of New Holland, a length of about 300 leagues: and had put in at 3 several places to see what there might be thereabouts worth discovering; and at the same time to recruit my stock of fresh water and provisions for the further discoveries I purposed to attempt on the Terra Australis. This large and hitherto almost unknown tract of land is situated so very advantageously in the richest climates of the world, the torrid and temperate zones; having in it especially all the advantages of the torrid zone, as being known to reach from the equator itself (within a degree) to the Tropic of Capricorn, and beyond it..."
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First published in 1729. "I had spent about 5 weeks in ranging off and on the coast of New Holland, a length of about 300 leagues: and had put in at 3 several places to see what there might be thereabouts worth discovering; and at the same time to recruit my stock of fresh water and provisions for the further discoveries I purposed to attempt on the Terra Australis. This large and hitherto almost unknown tract of land is situated so very advantageously in the richest climates of the world, the torrid and temperate zones; having in it especially all the advantages of the torrid zone, as being known to reach from the equator itself (within a degree) to the Tropic of Capricorn, and beyond it..."

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