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
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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.

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    power of fire, though it was not fufficient to al- ter the appearance of the flone which contained them. Wednef. tt It appeared, as we approached it on the wind- ward fide, like a rude heap of rocks, bounded by precipices of amazing height, and confifting ' of a kind of half friable ftone, which (hows not the lead: fign of vegetation *, nor is it more pro- mifing upon a nearer view: in failing along the fhore, we came fo near the huge cliffs, that they ' feemed to over-hang the fhip, and the tremen- dous effeft of their giving way, made us almoft fear the event: at length we opened a valley, called Chappel Valley, which refembles a large trench; and in this valley we difcovered the town. The bottom of it is flightly covered with herbage, but the fides are as naked as the cliffs that are next the fea. Such is the firffc appearance of the ifland in its prefent cultivated ftate, and the firfl hills muft be paffed before the vallies look green, or the country difplays any other marks of fertility. The town ftands juft by the fea fide, and the far greater part of the houfes are ill built; the church, which originally was a mean ftrudlure, is in ruins, and the market-houfe is nearly in the fame condition. The white inhabitants are all Englifli, who, as they are not permitted by the Eaft India Company, to whom the ifland belongs, to carry on