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" August, and not knowing the length of this straight and dangers thereof, we tooke it our best course to retourne with notice of our good successe for this small time of search. "
The Voyages and Works of John Davis, the Navigator - Page 203
by John Davis - 1880
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Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books, Volume 6

William Beloe - 1812 - 518 pages
...same, which we supposed to bee our hoped strayght ; we entered into the same thirty or fortie leages, finding it neither to wyden nor straighten ; then...considering that the yeere was spent, for this was in the fyne of August, and not knowing the length of lh« straight, and dangers thereof, we tooke it our best...
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A Chronological History of Voyages Into the Arctic Regions: Undertaken ...

John Barrow - 1818 - 460 pages
...same, which we supposed to bee our hoped strayght, we intered into the same thirty or fortie leages, finding it neither to wyden nor straighten, then considering that the yeere was spent for this was in the fyne of August, and not knowing the length of this straight and dangers thereof, we tooke it our best...
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A Chronological History of Voyages Into the Arctic Regions: Undertaken ...

Sir John Barrow - 1818 - 454 pages
...hoped strayght, we intered into the same thirty or fortie leages, finding it neither to wy den npr straighten, then considering that the yeere was spent for this was in the fyne of August, and not knowing the length of this straight and dangers thereof, we tooke it our best...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 21

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 pages
...west into the land, we entered into the same thirty or forty leagues/ (miles in the present case) ' finding it neither to wyden nor straighten, then considering that the yeere was spent, for this was in the fyne of August, and not knowing the length of this straight and danger thereof, we tooke it our best...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 21

1819 - 596 pages
...west into the land, we entered into the same thirty or forty leagues,' (miles in the present case) ' finding it neither to wyden nor straighten, then considering that the yeere was spent, for this was in the fyne of August, and not knowing the length of this straight and danger thereof, we tooke it our best...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...same, which we supposed to bee our hoped strayght. ^ wintered into the same thirty or fortie leagcs, , when looking well can't more her, Looking ill prevail...Prithee, why во pale 1 Why so dull and mute, yo fyne of August, Mid not knowing the length of this straight and dangers thereof, we tooke it our best...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...same, which we supposed to bee our hoped strayght. We intered into the same thirty or fortie leages, fyne of August, and not knowing the length of this straight and dangers thereof, we tooke it our best...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 1-2

Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 pages
...bee our hoped strayght. We intered into the same thirty or fortie leages, finding it neither towyden nor straighten ; then, considering that the yeere was spent, for this was in the fyne of August, and not knowing the length of this straight aud dangers thereof, we tooke it oar best...
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Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 14

Leslie Stephen - 1888 - 496 pages
...same thirty or forty leagues, finding it neither to widen nor straiten. Then considering that the year was spent (for this was in the fine of August), not Knowing the length of the strait and dangers thereof, we took it our best course to return with notice of our good success for...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ...

John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 544 pages
...same, which we supposed to bee our hoped strayght. We intered into the same thirty or fortie leages, finding it neither to wyden nor straighten ; then,...considering that the yeere was spent, for this was in the fyne of August, and not knowing the length of this straight and dangers thereof, we tooke it our best...
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