A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World, Vol. 1 of 3: In Which the Coast of North-West America Has Been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World, Vol. 1 of 3: In Which the Coast of North-West America Has Been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed The great naval powers of Europe, infpired with a delire not only of acquiring, but alfo of communicating, knowledge, had extended their refearches, in the 16th and 17th centuries, as far into the pacific ocean as their limited information of the geography of the earth, at that time, enabled them to penetrate. Some few attempts had alfo ...
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Excerpt from A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World, Vol. 1 of 3: In Which the Coast of North-West America Has Been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed The great naval powers of Europe, infpired with a delire not only of acquiring, but alfo of communicating, knowledge, had extended their refearches, in the 16th and 17th centuries, as far into the pacific ocean as their limited information of the geography of the earth, at that time, enabled them to penetrate. Some few attempts had alfo been made by this country towards the conclufion of each of thofe centuries; but it was not until the year 1764 that great-britain, benefiting by the ex perience of former enterprizes, laid the foundation for that valt accef lion of geographical knowledge, which fhe has fince obtained by the perfevering fpirit of her fuccellive diftinguilhed circumnavigators. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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