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  2. An Account of the Voyages - Wikipedia

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    An Account of the Voyages first page, 1773. 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 which were kept by the several commanders, and from ...

  3. Taylor Map of New York - Wikipedia

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    Inset of the title and the Brooklyn bridge. The Taylor Map is an engraved map of New York City, produced by Will L. Taylor for Galt & Hoy in 1879. [1] The map depicts the entire length of the island of Manhattan, although not to scale, and is surrounded by period advertisements and portraits of various businesses in New York and New Jersey.

  4. Domínguez–Escalante expedition - Wikipedia

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    The Domínguez–Escalante Expedition was a Spanish journey of exploration conducted in 1776 by two Franciscan priests, Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, to find an overland route from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to their Roman Catholic mission in Monterey, on the coast of modern day central California.

  5. The Voyage of the Beagle - Wikipedia

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    The book is a vivid travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal covering biology, geology, and anthropology that demonstrates Darwin's keen powers of observation, written at a time when Western Europeans were exploring and charting the whole world. Although Darwin revisited some areas during the expedition, for clarity the ...

  6. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides - Wikipedia

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    The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. is a travel journal by Scotsman James Boswell first published in 1785. In 1773, Boswell enticed his English friend Samuel Johnson to accompany him on a tour through the highlands and western islands of Scotland. Johnson was then in his mid-sixties and well known for his literary ...

  7. A Voyage Round the World - Wikipedia

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    Georg Forster's Chart of the Southern Hemisphere, engraved by William Whitchurch, March 1777. Not bound by his father's agreements with the Admiralty, Georg Forster began to write A Voyage Round the World in July 1776, which fully engaged him for nine months. [48] [49] [50] His father's journals were the main source for the work. [43]

  8. History of cartography - Wikipedia

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    An engraved map from the Kassite period (14th–12th centuries BC) of Babylonian history shows walls and buildings in the holy city of Nippur. [16] The Babylonian World Map, the earliest surviving map of the world (c. 600 BC), is a symbolic, not a literal representation.

  9. File:Mammoth tusk engraving map.jpg - Wikipedia

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