| Harold Adams Innis - 1923 - 384 páginas
...northern ocean of America was amended in 16 Geo. Ill, chap. 6, offering the reward for the discovery of " any northern passage " for vessels by sea between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. James Cook 1 discovered Vancouver Island in 1778. The account of the voyages, published in 1784,... | |
| James Wickersham - 1927 - 674 páginas
...other navigators, to show the practicability and good prospect of success in enterprises to discover a northern passage for vessels by sea, between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. London, 1776. 3573—Trusler, John. A descriptive account of the islands lately discovered in the South... | |
| Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio - 1928 - 50 páginas
...other navigators to show the practicability & good prospect of success in enterprises to discover a Northern Passage for vessels by sea between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. . . . Pub. London, 1776. Capt. James Cook's Voyages: Voyage towards the South Pole, 2 vols, published... | |
| James Cook - 1999 - 494 páginas
...that if any ship belonging to his Majesty, or his subjects, should find and sail through any passage by sea, between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, in any direction or parallel of the northern 1 The following letter formally offers his services: Admiralty Office, 1oth February... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1818 - 596 páginas
...Reward to " such Person or Persons, being His Majesty's subject or subjects, as " shall discover a Northern Passage for Vessels by Sea between the " Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and also unto such as shall first approach " by Sea within One Degree of the Northern Pole ;" the Reward... | |
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