The traveller's guide to Madeira and the West Indies; being a hieroglyphic representation of appearances and incidents during a voyage out and homewards, in a series of engravings ... : with a treatise explanatory of the various figures ... to which are added occasional notes, &c / By a young traveller [i.e. G. Miller].

  • Miller, George, active 1815.
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[1815]
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Credit: The traveller's guide to Madeira and the West Indies; being a hieroglyphic representation of appearances and incidents during a voyage out and homewards, in a series of engravings ... : with a treatise explanatory of the various figures ... to which are added occasional notes, &c / By a young traveller [i.e. G. Miller]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FEBRtJ ary]3 Join convoy... Off Portsmouth. C;i8i4. ordered to keep off, and not obeying, we fired an eighteen® pounder carronade into her, loaded with round and can® Ulster shot: she, however, continued to close on us, till w^e fired another double-shoted eighteen pounder, when she sheered ofL Fig. a; Came to an anchor in Yarmouth Roads on the 12th^ where two of the crew were impressed. Fig. S» Weighed anchor, and sailed from thence on the 14th, Fig. 6. On the Ibth, about 7 A. m, got sight of the convoy un^* der way; made all sail, and came up with them at 9 A. M,' off Portsmouth; sent the cutter aboard the commodore, and received instructions, ^ Bg. 7. We parted from the convoy on the 2nd of March, in company with five brigs, and steered for Madehae