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Title: A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 15 (of 18)
Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation,
Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To
The Present Time: Volume 15. Continuing An Account of a Voyage towards
the South Pole, and round the World, performed in his Majesty's ships
the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 3, 4, and 5: Written
by James Cook, Commander of the Resolution

Author: Robert Kerr

Release Date: January 6, 2005 [EBook #14611]

Language: English

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A
GENERAL
HISTORY AND COLLECTION
OF
VOYAGES AND TRAVELS,

ARRANGED IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER:

FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION,
DISCOVERY, AND COMMERCE, BY SEA AND LAND, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE
PRESENT TIME.

BY
ROBERT KERR, F.R.S. & F.A.S. EDIN.

ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND CHARTS.

VOL. XV.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH: AND T. CADELL, LONDON. MDCCCXXIV.

CONTENTS
OF
VOL. XV.

PART III.--BOOK II.

[Continuing An Account of a Voyage towards the South Pole, and round the World,
performed in his Majesty's ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years
1772, 3, 4, and 5: Written by James Cook, Commander of the Resolution.]

CHAP. IV.--_Continued._--From leaving New Zealand to our return to
England,

SECT. III. Range from Christmas Sound, round Cape Horn, through Strait
Le Maire, and round Staten Land; with an Account of the Discovery of a
Harbour in that Island, and a Description of the Coasts,

IV. Observations, geographical and nautical, with an Account of the
Islands near Staten Land, and the Animals found in them,

V. Proceedings after leaving Staten Island, with