Cursory remarks on some parts of a work, entitled Studies of nature ; originally written by M. de Saint Pierre, and translated into English by ... Henry Hunter / [William Cole].

  • Cole, William, active 1807.
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1807
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Credit: Cursory remarks on some parts of a work, entitled Studies of nature ; originally written by M. de Saint Pierre, and translated into English by ... Henry Hunter / [William Cole]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vinced we were in a large river, and not in a O 7 *c strait communicating with the northern seas.” Upon these remarks of Captain Colour author makes the following comment. [Page 36,Voi. III.] “ What Cook calls the inlet, to which the name of ‘‘ Cook’s great river has since been given, is, from its course, and its brackish waters,neither a “ strait nor a river, but a real northern sluice, €C through which the effusions of the polar ices are “ discharged into the ocean. We find others of “ the same kind at the bottom of Hudson’s Bay. Ellis was mistaken in these, in taking them for <£ straits which had a communication from the Northern ocean to the South sea.” V Another observation made by Captain Cook, in what our author calls a “ continuation of the u discovery of the interior of the inlet, or Cook’s “ great river,” he gives us as follows, [Page 36, Vol. III.] “ After we had entered the bav, the “ food set strongly into the river Turn a gain ; “ the ebb came out with still greater force ; the C£-a«4water falling while we lay at anchor, twen¬ ty feet perpendicular.” Our authors comment upon this remark, is