An account of a voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage by Hudson's Streights, to the western and southern ocean of America
Subtitle: performed in the year 1746 and 1747, in the ship California, Capt. Francis Smith, commander
By: by the clerk of the California : adorned with cuts and maps.
Contributors: Swaine, Charles.
Publisher: printed and sold by Mr. Jolliffe
Published: 1748
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: California (Ship).; Northwest Passage.
Notes: Charles Swaine was clerk of the California, according to a license issued by Samuel Ogle, Governor of Maryland, dated Nov. 3, 1750, and a letter from Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Coldan, dated Feb. 28, 1753. cf. Notes and queries, London, Nov. 6, 1943, p. 284-285. Theodorus Swaine Drage also has been named the clerk of the Califonia. cf. Barrow, Sir John, bart. A chronological history of voyages ... London, 1818, p. 257.