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... ship Santiago , and Quadra had a little schooner , the Sonora , only 36 feet long , 12 feet wide and 8 feet deep . They had 106 men in the party , and were ordered to sail and explore as far as 65 degrees of north latitude . They ...
... ship Santiago , and Quadra had a little schooner , the Sonora , only 36 feet long , 12 feet wide and 8 feet deep . They had 106 men in the party , and were ordered to sail and explore as far as 65 degrees of north latitude . They ...
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... ship's crew consisted of forty - four men , and they were rather curiously apportioned to the work as follows : One captain , two lieutenants , one second lieutenant , one physician , one quartermaster , eight sailors , one saddler ...
... ship's crew consisted of forty - four men , and they were rather curiously apportioned to the work as follows : One captain , two lieutenants , one second lieutenant , one physician , one quartermaster , eight sailors , one saddler ...
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... ship called St. Paul . They sailed from the Bay of Avatcha on June 4 , 1741 , and on June 21st the ships were separated in a gale . Cherikoff sailed eastward and sighted land at 56 degrees . He sent ten men in a boat to make ...
... ship called St. Paul . They sailed from the Bay of Avatcha on June 4 , 1741 , and on June 21st the ships were separated in a gale . Cherikoff sailed eastward and sighted land at 56 degrees . He sent ten men in a boat to make ...
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... ship could carry . Then there appears the Russian fur monopoly , and on August 18 , 1790 , Alexander Andreivich Baranoff became its manager . He ruled an autocrat in Alaska for three decades . He said : " My first steps into these ...
... ship could carry . Then there appears the Russian fur monopoly , and on August 18 , 1790 , Alexander Andreivich Baranoff became its manager . He ruled an autocrat in Alaska for three decades . He said : " My first steps into these ...
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... ship on that sea . The combination of wealth , fame and strong desire culmin- ated in a plan to sail a fleet of vessels on that new ocean . Spain and England were ostensibly at peace , but such rovers as Drake never hesitated to plunder ...
... ship on that sea . The combination of wealth , fame and strong desire culmin- ated in a plan to sail a fleet of vessels on that new ocean . Spain and England were ostensibly at peace , but such rovers as Drake never hesitated to plunder ...
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Page 94 - It will not be doubted that, with reference either to individual or national welfare, agriculture is of primary importance. In proportion as nations advance in population and other circumstances of maturity, this truth becomes more apparent, and renders the cultivation of the soil more and more an object of public patronage. Institutions for promoting it grow up, supported by the public purse ; and to what object can it be dedicated with greater propriety...
Page 26 - E. ; the round snowy mountain, now forming its southern extremity, and which, after my friend Rear Admiral Rainier, I distinguished by the name of MOUNT RAINIER, bore N.
Page 32 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Page 25 - I was thoroughly convinced, as were also most persons of observation on board, that we could not possibly have passed any safe navigable opening, harbor, or place of security for shipping, on this coast...
Page 25 - Meares's description of the coast south of this promontory, I was at first induced to believe it to be...
Page 94 - Among the means which have been employed to this end none have been attended with greater success than the establishment of boards (composed of proper characters) charged with collecting and diffusing information, and enabled by premiums and small pecuniary aids to encourage and assist a spirit of discovery and improvement.
Page 33 - I now mixed up some vermilion in melted grease, and inscribed, in large characters, on the South-East face of the rock on which we had slept last night, this brief memorial - 'Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada, by land, the twenty-second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.
Page 26 - Gulph of Georgia, and the continent binding the said gulph, and extending southward to the 45th degree of north latitude, with that of New Georgia, in honor of His present Majesty. This branch of Admiralty inlet obtained the name of Possession Sound; its western arm, after Vice Admiral Sir Alan Gardner, I distinguished by the name of Port Gardner [now called Saratoga Passage], and its smaller or eastern one by that of Port Susan.
Page 21 - It is in this very latitude where we now were, that geographers have placed the pretended strait of Juan de Fuca. But we saw nothing like it; nor is there the least probability that ever any such thing existed.
Page 143 - By this bill the government of the university is vested in a board of regents...