A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16

The Project Gutenberg EBook of A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16, by Robert Kerr This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 Author: Robert Kerr Release Date: August 7, 2005 [EBook #16471] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A GENERAL HISTORY AND *** Produced by Robert Connal, Alison Hadwin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. Produced from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions. A GENERAL HISTORY AND COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, ARRANGED IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER: FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION, DISCOVERY, AND COMMERCE, BY SEA AND LAND, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME. BY ROBERT KERR, F.R.S. & F.A.S. EDIN. ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND CHARTS. VOL. XVI. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH: AND T. CADELL, LONDON. MDCCCXXIV. [pg vi] CONTENTS OF VOL. XVI. CHAP. III. Transactions at Otaheite, and the Society Islands; and prosecution of the Voyage to the Coast of North America, 1 SECT. I. An Eclipse of the Moon observed. The Island Toobouai discovered. Its Situation, Extent, and Appearance.