Volume 4

An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Sir Joseph Banks, Bart / By John Hawkesworth ... Illustrated with cuts and charts, relative to countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known.

  • Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773.
Date:
1785
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Sir Joseph Banks, Bart / By John Hawkesworth ... Illustrated with cuts and charts, relative to countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    355/454 (page 339)
    of man or woman : the women indeed are moR delicately fairs but with the appearance of difeafe there never can be perfect beauty. People talk of death with as much indifference as they do in a camp ; and when an acquaint- ance is faid to be dead, the common reply is, “ Well, he owed me nothingor, “ I muft get “ my money of his executors.” To this defcription of the environs of Batavia there are but two exceptions. The Governor’s country houfe is fituated upon a rifing ground; but its afcent is fo inconfiderable, that it is known to be above the common level only by the Canals being left behind, and the appearance of a few bad hedges : his Excellency, however, who is a native of this place, has, with fome trouble and expence, contrived to inclofe his own garden with a ditch j fuch is the influence of habit both upon the tafte and the underftand- ing. A famous market alfo, called Paffar Ta- nabank, is held upon an eminence that rifes per- pendicularly about thirty feet above the plain; and except thefe fituations, the ground, for an extent of between thirty and forty miles round Batavia, is exactly parallel to the horizon. At the diftance of about forty miles inland there are hills of a confiderable height, where, as we were informed, the air is healthy, and compara- tively cool. Here the vegetables of Europe flourifli in great perfedlion, particularly ftraw- Z 2 berries. 1770.