A
GENERAL
HISTORY AND COLLECTION
OF
VOYAGES AND TRAVELS,
ARRANGED IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER:
FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS
OF NAVIGATION, DISCOVERY, AND COMMERCE,
BY SEA AND LAND,
FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME.
BY
ROBERT KERR, F.R.S. & F.A.S. EDIN.
ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND CHARTS.
VOL. XV.
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH:
AND T. CADELL, LONDON.
MDCCCXXIV.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME XV.
General Voyages and Travels of Discovery, &c.
[Continuing An Account of a Voyage towards the South Pole, andround the World, performed in his Majesty's ships the Resolution andAdventure, in the Years 1772, 3, 4, and 5: Written by James Cook,Commander of the Resolution.]
From leaving New Zealand to our return to England.
SECTION III. Range from Christmas Sound, round Cape Horn, throughStrait Le Maire, and round Staten Land; with an Account of theDiscovery of a Harbour in that Island, and a Description of theCoasts,
SECTION IV. Observations, geographical and nautical, with anAccount of the Islands near Staten Land, and the Animals found inthem,
SECTION V. Proceedings after leaving Staten Island, with anAccount of the Discovery of the Isle of Georgia, and a Description ofit,
SECTION VI. Proceedings after leaving the Isle of Georgia, with anAccount of the Discovery of Sandwich Land; with some Reasons forthere being Land about the South Pole,
SECTION VII. Heads of what has been done in the Voyage; with someConjectures concerning the Formation of Ice-Islands; and an Accountof our Proceedings till our Arrival at the Cape of Good Hope,
SECTION VIII. Captain Furneaux's Narrative of his Proceedings, inthe Adventure, from the Time he was separated from the Resolution, tohis Arrival in England; including Lieutenant Burney's Reportconcerning the Boat's Crew who were murdered by the Inhabitants ofQueen Charlotte's Sound,
SECTION IX. Transactions at the Cape of Good Hope; with an Accountof some Discoveries made by the French; and the Arrival of the Shipat St Helena,
SECTION X. Passage from St Helena to the Western Islands, with aDescription of the Island of Ascension and Fernando Noronha,
SECTION XI. Arrival of the Ship at the Island of Fayal, aDescription of the Place, and the Return of the Resolution toEngland,
A VOCABULARY OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE SOCIETYISLES.
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, undertaken by the Command of hisMajesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere; todetermine the Position and Extent of the West Side of North America,its Distance from Asia, and the Practicability of a Northern Passageto Europe. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke,and Gore, in his Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery, in theYears 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, & 1780.
Transactions from the Beginning of the Voyage till our Departurefrom New Zealand,