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alternative: A voyage to the South Atlantic and round Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean : for the purpose of extending the spermaceti whale fisheries and other objects of commerce, by ascertaining the ports, bays, harbours, and anchoring berths in certain islands and coasts in those seas at which the ships of the British merchants might be refitted
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is part of: Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection
contributor: Combe, William, 1742-1823.
creator: Colnett, James, 1755?-1806.
issued: 2015-06
issued: 1798
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/chungpub/items/1.0056078/source.json
extent: xviii, 179 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, folded maps, portrait ; 30 cm
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note: m cry -CKJ^- VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH ATLANTIC AND ROUND ' J\ CAPE HORN J . •|j| INTO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, FOR THE PURPOSE OP EXTENDING THE | SPERMACETI WHALE-FISHERIES, AND OTHER OBJECTS OF COMMERCE, BY ASCERTAINING THE PORTS, BAYS, HARBOURS, AND ANCHORING BIRTHS, IN CERTAIN ISLANDS AND COASTS IN THOSE SEAS AT WHICH THE SHIPS OP THE BRITISH MERCHANTS MIGHT BE REFITTED. UNDERTAKEN AND PERFORMED BY CAPTAIN JAMES COLNETT, OF THE ROYAL NAVY, IN THE SHIP RATTLEK. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY W. BENNETT, MARSHAM STREET, WESTMINSTER. SOLD BY A. ARROWSMITH, CHARLES STREET, SOHO ; STOCK.DALE, PICCADILLY; EDGERTON, CHARING CROSS ; ELMSLY, STRAND ; AND WHITE, FLEET STREET. 1798- j£c I Of Cop. I f^^3/^Si£«5ftSw m* C O N T EiM T S. *\ ^M'snmte&ikO "DedicatiotS^ Introduction ilSTSAHO *$P ^Pff^^ ^ Page kiss*??" CHAPTER L Parage of the Rattler from England to Rio Janeiro Tr - 7 CHAPTER IE Attempt to- di/cover I fie Grand; and PafTage Round) G#* iJ^ft ( g-^ ;:-.' 'v*- ■ -- - 8-18' .^CHAPTER HL Remarks o\k$fa-'Navigation round Cape Homfo r tg..\ - 20 CHAP'KER IV. $&>utefrtrik Cape Horn Jo moling th~e Coqfl of ChW^ and the Ifles St. FeUx- S^^i^nfbrofe - %l - 3? |^- CHAPTER V f^SB^h^ ^ Route of the Rattler from the Ifles Saint Felix aftdf f f§K 1 SainrAmfifo/e, to the Coafl of Peru • Jp CHAPTER VL, 2/fo Galapagoe Ifles w* 47 - 6r CONTENTS. CHAPTER VII. Pajfagefrom the Galapagoe Ifles, to IJle Cocas CHAPTER VIII. Route from Ifle Cocas, to the Coafi of Mexico; and - Ifles Santo Berta, and Rocka Partido^. from-.- « thence to the Coafi of California, and account :gj£,S>i\\ our cruize in the Gulf of California, with our return to Socoro cfter fcarchhig for Isle St. Thomas - - - ~ 75 CHAPTER IX. The Rattler quits the Ifle of Socoro for the Coafi of Mexico: fome account of our tranfaflions there, • and while we lay at anchor before the Ifland of Outbo, in the Gulf of Panama, to our afr2i>al at the Ifles of the Galapagoes, on and near the Equator - ■> - jzz CHAPTER X. The Rattler leaves the Ga…
note: Compiled by William Combe from Captain Colnett's notes. cf. Dict. nat. biog., under Combe.
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is shown at: 10.14288/1.0056078
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: London : Printed for the author by W. Bennett
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subject: Voyages and travels
subject: South America--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
subject: Pacific Coast (South America)--Description and travel
title: A voyage to the South Atlantic and round Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean : for the purpose of extending the spermaceti whale fisheries and other objects of commerce, by ascertaining the ports, bays, harbours, and anchoring births in certain islands and coasts in those seas at which the ships of the British merchants might be refitted
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