New discoveries concerning the world and its inhabitants
Subtitle: in two parts ... with maps and prints
Publisher: Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard
Published: 1778
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Containing a circumstantial account of all the islands in the South-Sea, that have been lately discovered or explored; the situation, climate, and soil of each; their natural productions, including many species of animals and vegetables hitherto unknown; the persons, dresses, extraordinary manners and customs, manufactures, buildings, government, and religion of the various inhabitants; their endowments, skill in navigation, and other arts and sciences. Comprehending all the discoveries made in the several voyages of Commodore (now admiral) Byron; Captains Wallis, Carteret, and Cook, related by D. Hawkesworth, Sydney Parkinson, Mr. Forster, and Captain Cook. Together with those of M. de Bougainville. The whole compared with the narratives of former celebrated navigators, viz. Mendoza, Quiros, Tasman, Le Maire, Schouten, Dampier, Roggewein, Anson, and others; title: Part 2. Containing a summary account of Captian Cook's attempts to discover a southern continent in 1773, 1774, 1775. Also the voyage of the honourable Constantine John Phipps, (now Lord Mulgrave) towards the North-Pole in 1773.