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Summary observations and facts collected from late and authentic accounts of Russian and other navigators, to show the practicability and good prospect of success in enterprises to discover a northern passage for vessels by sea, between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, or nearly to approach the North... [Unknown]

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"Attributed by Meusel to De Val Travers and by Cushing to Daines Barrington, ref. H.R. Wagner. Cartography (no.597), vol. I, p. 184; ref. also Sabin, variously attributed. Pp.28-29 with caption title: Short account of some voyages made by order of the King of Spain to discover the state of the West American coast from California upward, dated Madrid, 24 March 1776. [An account of the voyages of Perez, Hezeta and Bodega y Quadra] The main text discusses the possibility of a route north of Europe and Asia from the Atlantic to the Pacific." -- 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. 281.

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