66. THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK


Our famous geographer, M. De Busching, hath just received a letter from Mr Pallas, professor of the Imperial Academy of Petersburgh, dated the 21st of December, containing a recital of the unhappy end of the famous English traveller, Captain Cook, as follows…. a long and descriptive account of the voyage and details leading to the death of the famous explorer (front page, column 3, 29cm. of column space), in a contemporay complete issue of THE EDINBURGH EVENING COURANT, dated February 2nd, 1780


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A NAVAL BROADSIDE PERTAINING TO THE MUTINIES AT SPITHEAD AND THE NORE, 1797


addressed To the King from the master, wardens, assistants, and elder brethern of the Corporation of Trinity House..., declaring their loyalty and offering assistance, printed on single side of laid paper -- 12½ x 8in. (32 x 20cm.); together with a bookplate of one of the lead mutineers, Richard Parker; and his widow Ann aged 68, and a short historical summary


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