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The great probability of a north west passage: deduced from observations on the letter of Admiral de Fonte, who sailed from the Callao of Lima on the discovery of a communication between the South sea and the Atlantic ocean ... Proving the authenticity of the admiral's letter.

Title
The great probability of a north west passage: deduced from observations on the letter of Admiral de Fonte, who sailed from the Callao of Lima on the discovery of a communication between the South sea and the Atlantic ocean ... Proving the authenticity of the admiral's letter. With three explanatory maps ... By Thomas Jefferys ... With an appendix. Containing the account of a discovery of part of ... Labrador, made in 1753 ...
Publication
London, Printed for Thomas Jefferys, 1768.

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Additional Authors
  • Drage, Theodorus Swaine, approximately 1712-1774.
  • Swaine, Charles, active 1746-1766.
  • Jefferys, Thomas, -1771.
  • Clerk of the California.
Description
xxiv, 153 (1) p., 1 l. maps; 27 cm. (4to.)
Subject
  • Fuentes, Bartolomé de, active 17th century
  • Arctic regions > Discovery and exploration
  • Northwest Passage
  • Labrador (N.L.)
Note
  • Includes the probably fictitious "letter from Admiral Bartholomew de Fonte" as published in the Monthly miscellany, or Memoirs for the curious, April and June 1708.
  • "Appendix. An account of ... the Labrador: being an extract from a journal of a voyage made from Philadelphia in 1753," p. [131]-153, is "given by the person who commanded in this affair [presumably Charles Swaine]"--cf. p. xiii.
  • Ascribed to "the clerk of the California," who is sometimes identified as Theodorus Swaine Drage, sometimes as Charles Swaine.--cf. Forster, J.R. History of the voyages and discoveries made in the north. London, 1786. p. 454, and Eavenson, H.N. Map maker & Indian traders. [Pittsburgh] 1949. p. 165-176.
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Call Number
*KF 1768 (Great probability of a north west passage)
LCCN
27006048 //r55
OCLC
6266165
Title
The great probability of a north west passage: deduced from observations on the letter of Admiral de Fonte, who sailed from the Callao of Lima on the discovery of a communication between the South sea and the Atlantic ocean ... Proving the authenticity of the admiral's letter. With three explanatory maps ... By Thomas Jefferys ... With an appendix. Containing the account of a discovery of part of ... Labrador, made in 1753 ...
Imprint
London, Printed for Thomas Jefferys, 1768.
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Sabin 28460
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Added Author
Drage, Theodorus Swaine, approximately 1712-1774. Attributed name
Swaine, Charles, active 1746-1766. Attributed name
Jefferys, Thomas, -1771.
Clerk of the California.
Research Call Number
*KF 1768 (Great probability of a north west passage)
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