 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 546 sider
...wood, and had a very pleasant and fertile appearance. 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.' I stood off to the... | |
 | General history - 1814 - 798 sider
...wood, and had a very pleasant and fertile appearance. 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 ig there the least probability that ever any such thing existed.' I stood off to the southward... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 526 sider
...wood, and had a very pleasant and fertile appearance. 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 it there the least probability that ever any such thing existed.' I stood off to the southward... | |
 | Charles Grenfell Nicolay - 1846 - 248 sider
...Sound, where he remained to examine and refit his vessels. In passing Cape Flattery, he remarks, " it is in this very latitude that geographers have placed...pretended Strait of Juan de Fuca ; but we saw nothing like it, nor is there the least probability that ever any such thing existed." From this point the... | |
 | Alexander George Findlay - 1851 - 748 sider
...wood, and had a very fertile and pleasant appearance. 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."* The great commander... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1861 - 694 sider
...distant. Hear what he says in relation to the strait: " 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 any such tiiing ever existed."—Cook's Third Voyage,... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1861 - 698 sider
...distant. Hear what he says in relation to the strait : " It is in this very latitude where we now were that geographers have placed the pretended Strait of Juan de Fuca. But we Haw nothing like it ; nor is there the least probability that any such thing ever existed." — Cook's... | |
 | John Adams Dix - 1864 - 466 sider
...distant. Hear what he says in relation to the strait : — " 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 any such thing ever existed." — Cook's Third Voyage,... | |
 | John Adams Dix - 1864 - 482 sider
...relation to the strait : — " It is in this very latitude where we now were that geographers hare placed the pretended Strait of Juan de Fuca. But we saw nothing like it ; nor is there the least probability that any such thing ever existed."— OooKs Third Voyage,... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Nemos, Alfred Bates - 1887 - 838 sider
...under his very eyes, he should press northward, saving: '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 tiling existed.' Cook's t'cy., ii. '2G1-3.... | |
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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. 
