A Voyage of Discovery to the Strait of Magellan With An Account of the Manners
A Voyage of Discovery to the Strait of Magellan With An Account of the Manners
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Verdun de la Cremie, in his chart of these seas, in latitude38° 13', he says also, that perhaps it ought to be placed in 37" 30' ; in v/liich latitude he has laid it down a second time. Had we trusted to our reckoning, we would not have taken this course, which v/ould afterwards have prevented us from passing to the westward of the Azores with the winds which generally blow from W. To NW. ; but, according to our observations for determining the longitude, in which we placed greater confi- dence... than in our reckoning, v/e were still four degrees to the W. Of those islands.
The pilot of the ship Buen Consejo, on his return from Lima, had some conversation at Fayal, in the island of Flores, one of the Azores, with a Portuguese pilot of that island, who gave him the following information : viz. " The Vigia lies WSW. From the island Flores QQ^ leagues. An English vessel from to the Strait of Magellan. 61 Madeira was lost upon it ; and the crew in the long-boat steered ENE. The above distance, which brought them to Fayal.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Verdun de la Cremie, in his chart of these seas, in latitude38° 13', he says also, that perhaps it ought to be placed in 37" 30' ; in v/liich latitude he has laid it down a second time. Had we trusted to our reckoning, we would not have taken this course, which v/ould afterwards have prevented us from passing to the westward of the Azores with the winds which generally blow from W. To NW. ; but, according to our observations for determining the longitude, in which we placed greater confi- dence... than in our reckoning, v/e were still four degrees to the W. Of those islands.
The pilot of the ship Buen Consejo, on his return from Lima, had some conversation at Fayal, in the island of Flores, one of the Azores, with a Portuguese pilot of that island, who gave him the following information : viz. " The Vigia lies WSW. From the island Flores QQ^ leagues. An English vessel from to the Strait of Magellan. 61 Madeira was lost upon it ; and the crew in the long-boat steered ENE. The above distance, which brought them to Fayal.
What to read after A Voyage of Discovery to the Strait of Magellan With An Account of the Manners?
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