Volume 1

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 Endeavor, drawn up from the journals kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq / By John Hawkesworth ... ; illustrated with cuts and a great variety of charts and maps relative to countries now first discovered or hitherto but imperfectly known.

  • Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773.
Date:
1773
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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 Endeavor, drawn up from the journals kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq / By John Hawkesworth ... ; illustrated with cuts and a great variety of charts and maps relative to countries now first discovered or hitherto but imperfectly known. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ■V eular dire(5lion, and on whlcK the fhip would reft if laid on the ground :: -or more particularly, thofe parts of the bottom which are oppofite to the heads of the floor-timbers amidfhips on each fide of the keel. Hence,, when a fliip receives a fradlure in this place, fhe is faid to be bilged. BIRTH, the ftation in which a Ihip rides at anchor. Birth, alfo fignifies the room or apartment where any particular' number of the officers or fhip’s company ufually mefs and refide., BOARD, the line over which the Ihip runs between tack and tack-,, when file is turning to windward, or failing againft the diredlion of the. wind. BOW, the rounding part of a fliip’s fide forward, beginning at the place where the planks-arch inwards, and terminating where they clofc at the ftem or prow. BREAKERS, billows that break violently over rocks lying under the furface of the fca. ToBRING-TO, to check the courfe of a fliip wffien flie is advancing:, by arranging the fails in fuch a manner as that they lhall counter-adl each other, and prevent her either from' retreating- or moving forward. In; this fituation the fliip is faid to lie-by, or lie-to.. BULK-HEADS, certain partitions, or walls, built up in feveral. places of a Ibip between two decks, either lengthways or acrofs, to forna and feparate the various apartments. * * BUOY, a fort of clofe calk, or block of wood, faftened by a rope tO; the anchor, to determine, the place where the anchor is fituated. C. CABhYj’s-length^ a hundred'and twenty-fathom. CAP, a ftrong, thick block of wood, ufed to confine two mafis to^ gether, when the one is eredled at the head of the other, in order to lengthen it. It is for this purpofe furnilhed with two holes perpendicu¬ lar to it’s length and breadth, and parallel to its thicknefs; one of thefe is fquare, and tiie^other round j the former being folidly fixed upon the upper-end of the lower-maft, wliilft the latter receives the maft em¬ ployed, to lengthen it, and fecures it in this pofition. . CAPSTERN, or Capstan, a- ftrong, mafly column of timber, formed like a truncated cone, and having its upper extremity pierced' with a number 0{ holes to receive the bars or levers. It is let down per- 6 pendicularly