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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Browne, in his "History of Jamaica" mentions three species whose roots, he says, are used to dye a brown colour; and Rumphius says of his Bancudus angustifolia, which is...Joseph Banks Patrick BrowneThe Civil and Natural History of JamaicaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Browne, in his "History of Jamaica" mentions three species whose roots, he says, are used to dye a brown colour; and Rumphius says of his Bancudus angustifolia, which is...Joseph Banks Georg Eberhard RumphiusHerbarium AmboinensisPrint: Book
1700-1799'From the vocabularies given in Le Maire's voyage (see Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes, tom. i. p. 410) it appears clearly that the languages given there as...Joseph Banks Charles de BrosseHistoire des Navigations aux Terres AustralesPrint: Book
1700-1799'I shall give them from a book called a "Collection of Voyages by the Dutch East Company", Lond. 1703, p. 116, where, supposing the author who speaks of ten numbers and g...Joseph Banks Rene Augustin Constantin de RennevilleA collection of voyages undertaken by the Dutch Ea...Print: Book
1700-1799'He was covered with a fine cloth of a manufacture totally new to us; it was tied on exactly as represented in Mr. Dalrymple's book, p. 63; his hair was also tied in a kn...Joseph Banks Alexander DalrympleAn Account of the Discoveries made in the South Pa...Print: Book
1700-1799'The men in these boats were dressed much as they are represented in Tasman's figure, that is, two corners of the cloth they wore were passed over their shoulders and fas...Joseph Banks Abel Jansen Tasman[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'We had also that fish described by Frezier in his voyage to Spanish South America by the name of "elefant, pejegallo" or "poisson coq" which, though coarse, we made shif...Joseph Banks Amedee Francois FrezierRelation du voyage de la Mer du Sud, aux c?tes du ...Print: Book
1700-1799'Young as he [Allan Cunningham] was, I had heard of his name, although slightly, and, I think, seen one or two of his juvenile pieces. Of an elder brother of his, Thomas ...James Hogg Thomas Mouncey Print: Unknown
1700-1799'[on receiving the first printed copies of his poems] no sooner did the first copy come to hand, than my eyes were open to the folly of my conduct; for, on comparing it w...James Hogg James Hogg[a pamphlet of poems]Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799'In examining a fig which we had found at our last going ashore, we found in the fruit a "Cynips", very like, if not exactly the same species as "Cynips sycomori", Linn.,...Joseph Banks Fredrik HasselquistIter PalestinumPrint: Book
1700-1799'The gum-trees were like those in the last bay, both in leaf and in producing a very small proportion of gum; on the branches of them and other trees were large ants' nes...Joseph Banks Sir Hans SloaneHistory of JamaicaPrint: Book
1700-1799'While botanising to-day I had the good fortune to take an animal of the opossum ("Didelphis") tribe; it was a female, and with it I took two young ones. It was not unli...Joseph Banks Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonHistoire naturelle, generale et particulierePrint: Book
1700-1799'While botanising to-day I had the good fortune to take an animal of the opossum ("Didelphis") tribe; it was a female, and with it I took two young ones. It was not unli...Joseph Banks Peter Simon PallasMiscellanea ZoologiaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Having now, I believe, fairly passed through between New Holland and New Guinea, and having an open sea to the westward, so that to-morrow we intend to steer more to the...Joseph Banks William Dampier"Voyage Round the World" or "Voyage to New Holland...Print: Book
1700-1799'This I should suppose to be the gum mentioned by Dampier in his voyage round the world, and by him compared with "Sanjuis draconis", as possibly also that which Tasman s...Joseph Banks William Dampier"Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland...Print: Book
1700-1799'This I should suppose to be the gum mentioned by Dampier in his voyage round the world, and by him compared with "Sanjuis draconis", as possibly also that which Tasman s...Joseph Banks Abel Janszoon Tasman[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'The third was of the opossum kind, and much resembled that called by De Buffon "Phalanger". Of these two last I took only one individual of each. Bats here were many: ...Joseph Banks Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonHistoire naturelle, generale et particulierePrint: Book
1700-1799'When first we found the tree, we of course gathered the branches, and were surprised to find our hands instantly covered with legions of these small animals, who stung m...Joseph Banks Georg Eberhard RumphiusHerbarium AboinensePrint: Book
1700-1799'The chief inconvenience in handling the roots came from the infinite number; myriads would come in an instant out of many holes, and running over the hand tickle so as t...Joseph Banks Georg Eberhard RumphiusHerbarium AboinensePrint: Book
1700-1799'All the shoals that were dry at half ebb afforded plenty of fish, left dry in small hollows of the rocks, and a profusion of large shell-fish (Chama gigas) such as Dampi...Joseph Banks William Dampier"Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland...Print: Book


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