 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 530 páginas
...W., in the latitude of 74° 44' 20", by which the expedition became entitled to the reward of £5000, granted by an order in Council upon the Act 58 Geo....event they gave to a bold cape of the island then lying in sight the name of Bounty Cape ; and so anxious were they now to press forward, that they began... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - 1860 - 346 páginas
...W. in the latitude of 74° 44' 20", by which the expedition became entitled to the reward of 5000Z., granted by an order in Council upon the Act 58 Geo....the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and to approach the Worth Pole." This fact was not announced to the crews until the following day ; to celebrate the event... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1886 - 682 páginas
...became entitled to the reward of £5000, granted by an order in Council upon the Act 58 Geo. 111., cap. 20, entitled, "An Act for more effectually discovering...to the crews until the following day ; to celebrate tbe event they gave to a bold cape of the island then lying in sight the name of Bounty Cape ; and... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - 1896 - 496 páginas
...history. Among the references to past legislation which are to be found in 58 George III. c. 20, ' An Act for more effectually discovering the longitude...the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and to approach the Northern Pole,' is one from which it will be seen, to the surprise perhaps of most people, that the... | |
 | Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. Library - 1898 - 222 páginas
...Commissioners of Longitude. 4° Cambridge, 1772. A bill intituled an Act to amend an Act [58 Geo. III. c. 20], for more effectually discovering the longitude at...the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and to approach the Northern Pole. fo. [London, 1821], - by chronometers, by Lieut. Henry Raper. Nautical Magazine. 1839,... | |
 | Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - 1915 - 282 páginas
...Terror, carried discovery in these regions further still. In 1818 an Act of Parliament was passed " for more effectually discovering the longitude at...the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and to approach the Northern Pole." This Act, which embodied and expanded two older Acts of 1745 and 1776, offered a reward... | |
 | 1821 - 392 páginas
..." WHEREAS by an Act of the fifty-eighth year of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled " An Act for more effectually discovering the Longitude...-the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and to approach the Northern Pole;" and by another Act of the present session of Parliament, to amend the said Act, it... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1912 - 428 páginas
...; any Thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding. 58° GEO. III. CAP. XX. AD 1818. An Act for more effectually discovering the Longitude...the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and to approach the Northern Pole.1 [8th May 1818.] [The Preamble recites that by 13 Ann. c. 14 [12 Ann. St. 2. c. 15.,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 604 páginas
...Brunswick, of the articles therein enumerated, and the Re-exportation thereof from such Ports.— May 8. XX. An Act for more effectually discovering the Longitude...the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and to approach the Northern Pole. - May 0. XXI. An Act to revive and continue, until the fifth day of July one thousand... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1818 - 596 páginas
...— o _ S. d H e cIS.BS - 0_ » a. cart ST. S' 5' B 3 gj on? 15 - o a* S O ai gs _ cc 1^ ••o* BI For more effectually discovering the Longitude at...the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and to approach the Northern Pole. Note. — The Figures in the Margin denote the Number of the Folios in the written Copy.... | |
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An Act for more effectually discovering the longitude at sea, and encouraging attempts to find a northern passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and to approach the North Pole. 
