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About fixty miles from Little river it receives Green Briar river from the eaft, which is the only tributary flream in all that diftancc.
An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829. cn 1796
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Thus the fruitful parts of the Britifh dominions are divided into three, which we may call the eaft, weft, and fouth divifions; each of which contains, at moft, about fifty thou - fand fquare miles of good and fertile land, and forms a country about the fize of England, in cli - mates that are fit to produce every thing the na~ tion wants.
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In the. night we had the land-breeze at fouth-fouth-eaft a fmall gentle gale, which in the morning about fun-rifing would fhift about gradually (and withal increafing in ftrength) till about noon, we fhould have it at eallfouth-eaft, which is the true fea-breeze here; then it would blow a brifk gale, fo that we could fcarce carry our top-fails double reefed; and it would continue thus till three in the afternoon, when it would decreafe again.
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The water of thefe two rivulets was excellent; but as the anchorage in the eaft bay, if not impra£fa'ca -
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Manila, fituate m latitude fourteen degrees thirty-fix minutes eight feconds, north longitude eaft of Paris, one hundred and eighteen degrees thirty-one minutes fifteen feconds, is a city built on the banks of the river Bahia.
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The 26th we made the coaft of Chiniai, and Pedra Blanca, an infulated white rock in the middle of the fea, fituate, accordmg to Sir Erafmus Gower, in latitude twenty-two degrees nineteen minutes north, longitude eaft of Paris one hundred and twelve degrees thirty - feven minutes*.
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** Cipangu is Japan; it bears this name on the globe of Behaim, on which ft is termed the rich eft ifland of the eaft.
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We faw a high peaked hill at the north end: but the land on the eaft fide is low ail along; for we cruifed almoft the length of it.
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Batavia has five gates; one at the eaft fide, which is called the Rotterdam gate; two to the fouth, the New gate, and the Dieft gate; one to the weft, the Utrecht gate; aud one on the north fide, to the weft of the river, called the Square gate.
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They made fail to the fouthward, having a gentle gale at fouth-eaft-by-eaft, it being Captain Cook's intention to proceed diredly to Queen Charlotte's Sound in New Zealand, there to take in wood and water, and then to go on farther difcoveries to the fouth and eaft.
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