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Journal of a voyage to the northern whale-fishery including researches and discoveries on the eastern coast of West Greenland made in the summer of 1822 in the ship Baffin of Liverpool

Title
Journal of a voyage to the northern whale-fishery [electronic resource] : including researches and discoveries on the eastern coast of West Greenland made in the summer of 1822 in the ship Baffin of Liverpool / by William Scoresby, Jr.
Author
Scoresby, William, 1789-1857.
Publication
Edinburgh : Printed for A. Constable and Co., 1823.

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Additional Authors
Giesecke, Carl Ludwig, 1761-1833.
Description
xliii, 472 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., 2 maps (fold.), plan; 22 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • Reproduction of original from Yale University Libraries.
  • Sabin no. 78171.
Indexed In (note)
  • RLIN,
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
Contents
List of specimens of the rocks brought from the eastern coast of Greenland, with geological memoranda / Professor Jameson -- Lists of plants from the east coast of Greenland, with some remarks / Dr. Hooker -- List of animals met with on the east coast of West Greenland, with notes and memoranda -- Meteorological table -- Journal of proceedings on board of the Hercules of Aberdeen, Captian Thomas Fairburn, on the east coast of West Greenland, from the 22d of August to the 11th of September, 1822 -- Journal of proceedings on board of the Trafalgar of Hull, Captain Lloyd, on the east coast of West Greenland, from the 12th to the 31st of August, 1822 -- Table of latitudes and longitudes of headlands, bays and islands on the eastern coast of Greenland -- Remarks on the structure of Greenland in support of the opinion of its being as assemblage of islands and not a continent / Sir Charles Giesecke -- Explanation fo some of the technical terms made use of in the journal.
OCLC
CTRG05-B10035
Author
Scoresby, William, 1789-1857.
Title
Journal of a voyage to the northern whale-fishery [electronic resource] : including researches and discoveries on the eastern coast of West Greenland made in the summer of 1822 in the ship Baffin of Liverpool / by William Scoresby, Jr.
Imprint
Edinburgh : Printed for A. Constable and Co., 1823.
Indexed In:
RLIN, CTRG05-B10035
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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Full text online available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Giesecke, Carl Ludwig, 1761-1833.
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