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"Split their skulls, though they be like those of the bullocks their sires drive!" "Down with the moss troopers!" "Boves boreales!" And answering cries: "Down with the lisping, smooth-tongued Southerners!" "Australes asini!" "Eheu!" "Slay me every one with a burr in his mouth." "Down with the mincing fools who have got no r.r.r's" "Burrrrn them, you should say." "Frangite capita."
The aurora borealia, or rather, the polar aurora, for there are aurorae australes as well as aurorae boreales, has been an object of wonder and admiration from time immemorial. Pliny and Aristotle record phenomena identical with those which later times have witnessed. The ancients ranked this with other celestial phenomena, as portending great events.
Baudin's one of a series of French expeditions. The building up of the map of Australia. Early map-makers. Terra Australis. Dutch navigators. Emmerie Mollineux's map. Tasman and Dampier. The Petites Lettres of Maupertuis. De Brosses and his Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes. French voyages that originated from it. Bougainville; Marion-Dufresne; La Perouse; Bruni Dentrecasteaux.
In this part of America, as in Australia* to the west of Sydney, it is not so much the height of the mountain chains, as the form of the rocks, that presents obstacles difficult to surmount. Peron, Voyage aux Terres Australes page 389. The longitudinal valley formed by the lofty mountains of the interior and the southern declivity of the Cerro de San Antonio, is intersected by the Rio Manzanares.
And slowly articulating each syllable, he repeated the following sentences: "LE 27th JUIN, 1862, le trois-mats Britannia, de Glasgow, a sombre apres une longue AGONIE dans les mers AUSTRALES sur les cotes de la Nouvelle ZELANDE in English Zealand.
Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes. Par le President de Brosses. Paris, 1756. 2 vols. 4to This work is more highly prized on the continent than with us: it certainly is not equal to some of our histories of voyages either in judgment, accuracy of information, or extensive views. Relation de deux Voyages dans les Mers Australes et des Indes. 1771-73. Par M. de Kerguelen.
Cook, too, made a record of the latitude and longitude of Port Jackson. Now, Baudin's statement is confirmed by five documents, the testimony of which is convincing. As an appendix to volume 3 of the Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes, is printed the entire log of Le Geographe. It was the wind which was hindering Flinders, sailing in the opposite direction.
"The charts with which I compared such parts of this coast as I visited are bound up with a French work entitled Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes, which was published in 1756, and I found them tolerably exact." As to what Cook did in the matter of dry geographical details, if the reader wants them he must go to one or other of the hundred or more books on the subject.
The author of the "Histoire des Navigationes aux Terres Australes," in his account of La Maire's voyage, has given a vocabulary of the language that is spoken in an island near New Britain, and we find, by comparing that vocabulary with the words which we learnt in New Holland, that the languages are not the same.
As has already been said, the first volume of Peron's Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes, and the first edition of the atlas containing two of Freycinet's charts, were published in 1807.
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