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“The people in this house seemed to be quite savage and rude”
On April 14, 2023 by trappedinthe18thAfter riding ten miles thro’ woods and marshes, in which we were pestered with mosquitoes, we arrived at eight o’clock at night at one Brewster’s, where we put up for all night, and in this house we could get nothing either to eat or drink, and so were obliged to go to bed fasting or
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26 August 1768 HMS Endeavour sets sails
On August 26, 2022 by trappedinthe18thOn 26 August 1768, James Cook set sail on his first voyage on the board of HMS Endeavour from Plymouth. Originally, the purpose of the voyage was to observe and record the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun, as a part of other observations to help to determine the distance of the Earth from
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“and began to ascend the Alps”
On June 11, 2021 by trappedinthe18th“During the first days of this journey among the Alps, the scenery exhibited a wonderful mixture of solitude and inhabitation, of cultivation and barrenness. On the edge of tremendous precipices, and within the hollow of the cliffs, below which the clouds often floated, were seen villages, spires, and convent towers; while green pastures and vineyards