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Atlas para el viage de las goletas Sutil y Mexicana al reconocimiento del estrecho de Juan de Fuca en 1792 [Espinosa y Tello, Josef, 1763-1815]

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"Atlas title: Atlas para el viage de las goletas Sutil y Mexicana al reconocimiento del estrecho de Juan de Fuca en 1792, publicado en 1802. Sometimes attributed to Dionisio Alcalá Galiano, commander of the expedition. M.F. Navarrete states, vol.2, p.65, that Espinosa wrote the Relacion and he himself wrote the introduction which is a résumé of Spanish voyages to the coast. The introduction was also published separately under the title Noticia histórica de las expediciones (no.396). "Vocabulario del idioma de los habitantes de Nutka": pp. 178- 184." -- Strathern, G. M. , & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 85.

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