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contributor: Barrington, Daines, 1727-1800
creator: Mourelle de la Rúa, Francisco Antonio, 1750-1820
issued: 2016-02-23
issued: [1780?]
description: "Reprinted from Daines Barrington's Miscellanies (no.27). 'A reprint edition of the Journal was also published, evidently after the forms of the Miscellanies were worked off and before they were taken off the press, the folios being changed, as well as the signatures on the press': - Russell, in his 1920 edition, p.ix. Navarrete has a bio-bibliographical note." -- 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. 211.
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extent: 471-477, 471-552 : map, tables ; 27 cm
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note: j>. -P. ^^T^-Ml^.L/^-irvo/j tf&liTtfO - v^S! u>jiWj •<L*~<r fi 'LK mw nmwn Ksa ' 'wL. !K*Sf!E fyf:ff- a^v *><Jt>i Ts&< > . g //• SA. A / JO U R N A L 0 F A V O Y A G E in 1775. To explore the coaft of America, Northward of California, By the fecond Pilot sof the Fleet, Don Francisco Antonio Maurelle, in the King's Schooner, called the Sonora, and commanded by Don Tuan Francisco de la Bodega. ^^uLinsepss^^^jsnt^ [ 47'* ] R E C E. TH E following journal having been placed in my hands for perufal, I conceived it to be fo interefting for the improvement of Geography, that I defired pentaiffion to tranflate and publifh it. I was principally induced to take this trouble, becaufe I fup- pofed, that the Spaniards, from their moft peculiar jealoufy with regard to their American dominions', would never permit that navigators of other countries (particularly the Englifh) fhould know the excellent ports of the Weftern part of America jn high Northern Latitudes, which are here laid down with fuch accuracy and precifion, together with the abundant fupply of malls, Ere wood, and water which may be procured in moft of them. a That moft able Hiftorian Dr. Robertfon, after having mentioned, that moft of the American papers are deported in the Archivo of Shnanca, near Valladolid, thus proceeds z " The profpect of fuch a treasure excited my moft ardent curiofity; " but the profpect of it only is all that I have enjoyed. Spain, with *f an excefs of cauSaon, hath ufiafafmly thrown a veil over her tranf- ** a.ttk>ns w America : from ftrangers they are cdncealed with peculiar " folicitude." Preface to the Hiftory of America, p. ix. 1 H H jr ci ry * O o o 4 It Il?!BW*^Bfa^Sffi^MH»S.l!!Be«RS^J»flElS5SSB3Sr«ElS [ *47* 1 Jt appears, by Venegas's Hiftory of California, publifhed in 1747b, that great jealoufy was then entertained of our difcover- ing a N. W. paflagec, becaufe they apprehended we fhould annoy the coafts of Mexico and Peru. Nothing however can be more groundlefs than thefe fufpici…
note: Pages 541-546 missing in print. Other Copies: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/496850808
has type: Books
has type: Travel literature
identifier: F864 .M933 1781
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0226110
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: [London] : [publisher not identified]
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source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. F864 .M933 1781
subject: Mourelle de la Rúa, Francisco Antonio, 1750-1820
subject: Bucareli y Ursúa, Antonio María, frey, 1717-1779
subject: Sonora (Ship)
subject: Pacific Coast (U.S.)--Description and travel
subject: Northwest Coast of North America--Description and travel
subject: Spain--Exploring expeditions
title: Journal of a voyage in 1775. To explore the coast of America, Northward of California, by the second pilot of the fleet, Don Francisco Antonio Maurelle, in the King's Schooner, called the Sonora, and commanded by Don Juan Francisco de la Bodega
type: Text