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Oo the coaft is a Sargel, a iea-port. of Tfemefeny iilbery for aochovieS 'and coral, of which. feated on tbe lea ceaft, S5 miles froOi ctey lend large quaotiusa to GfaQa. aqd Aigiers.
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CAROLINA extends three hundred miles along. the coaft, which is two hundred miles broad as far as the A palchian mountains.
A philosophical and political history of the British settlements and trade in North America ... 1779
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The natives for fome time kept a parallel courfe to that we went, but perceiving two of our boats, the crews of which were dragging for oyfters, they plunged into the forefts; and from that inftant no one made his appearance again on this part of the coaft.
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By the 27th they had failed round the whole country, and determined to depart from the coaft, as foon as they had taken in a ftock of water.
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Here is a tide: the flood fets weft and the ebb eaft, but the latter is very famt, and but of fmall continuance; and fo we found it ever fince we came from Timor: the winds we found eafterly, between north-eaft and eaft-fouth-eaft, fo that if thefe continue, it is impoffible to beat farther to the ezftward on this coaft againft wind and current.
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While my companions were employed on their geographic furvey of the fhore, I advanced towards the north coaft of the bay, and penetrated into the interior.
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To he was killed, as feveral have aflured me, and his gold fdzed on, and all his, things; and his journal alfo from England, as far as Cape Corrientes on the coaft of Mexico.
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This defcrip - tfon agrees very well with that of Schoyten and Le Maire; fo that probably they had tiow light again of the coaft of New Guinea.
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The 24th February was paffed in afcending towards the north, parallel with the weftem coaft of Schouten iflands: but impetuous fqualls fpringing up from the fouth fcarcely allowed fufficient time for our travellers to feek refuge to leeward of a fmall • ifland, which, from its value at this critical inftant, they termed the Iflet of Refuge.
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The Spaniards of Manila might even themfelves proceed to the coaft of India with iilver, indigo, and merchandize from China, and there obtain in exchange cambayas, muflins, cloths, and handkerchiefs, either for inveftments on European fliips or on thofe for Acapulco.
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