Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition: During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, Vydání 3Lea and Blanchard, 1845 Trade or public edition of Wilkes's narrative of the expedition directed to the general reader. The expedition roved from the southern most tip of South America to the Oregon coast, through the south and north Pacific and Antarctic waters. In the course of the expedition many locations were visited: Brazil, Patagonia, Chile, Peru, Samoa, Fiji, Tahiti, Borneo, the Philippines, Singapore with extended stays at Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand. This and all eds later than 1845 appeared without an atlas. |
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... observations , is erroneously placed in the charts , which make it forty - two minutes too far to the eastward . We experienced after sailing a current of eight miles to the northward in twenty - four hours . On the 8th April , the ...
... observations , is erroneously placed in the charts , which make it forty - two minutes too far to the eastward . We experienced after sailing a current of eight miles to the northward in twenty - four hours . On the 8th April , the ...
Strana 182
... observations for latitude and meridian distance , as well as effecting a comparison with my intensity needles . Having transferred Lieutenant Case to the Vincennes , Assistant- Surgeon Fox and Midshipman Henry joined the tender , and at ...
... observations for latitude and meridian distance , as well as effecting a comparison with my intensity needles . Having transferred Lieutenant Case to the Vincennes , Assistant- Surgeon Fox and Midshipman Henry joined the tender , and at ...
Strana 405
... observations for the longitude and also latitude , by meridian observations and double altitudes : keeping a diagram and chart on a large scale ( one quarter of an inch to a mile ) , which will be brought up at the end of each day's ...
... observations for the longitude and also latitude , by meridian observations and double altitudes : keeping a diagram and chart on a large scale ( one quarter of an inch to a mile ) , which will be brought up at the end of each day's ...
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