Memorials of the Sea: My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of WhitbyScoresby, William
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Memorials of the Sea: My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby
Scoresby, William
Fathers and sons -- England -- Whitby; Scoresby, William, 1760-1829; Whaling
ACCOUNT OF THE ARCTIC REGIONS:
_2 vols. 8vo.—Out of print._
VOYAGE TO THE NORTHERN WHALE FISHERY:
Including Researches and Discoveries on the Eastern Coast of Greenland in
1822.—_1 vol. 8vo.—Out of print._
=“William Scoresby’s des Jüngern Tagebuch einer Riese auf den
Wallfischfang:”=
A German Translation by Professor FREDERICK KRIES, published in Hamburgh
1825.
BY NISBET & CO.
MEMORIAL OF AN AFFECTIONATE AND DUTIFUL SON:
Frederick R. H. S., who fell asleep in Jesus, Dec. 31, 1834; aged 16
years:—_12mo. 4s._
DISCOURSES TO SEAMEN:
Consisting of Fifteen Sermons, preached in the Mariners’ Church, Liverpool,
treated, for the most part _generally_, on subjects of Christian Practice
and Doctrine: _12mo. 4s._
BY SAMPSON LOW & D. BOGUE.
THE WHALEMAN’S ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTHERN OCEAN:
As gathered by the Rev. H. CHEEVER, on a Voyage undertaken for his Health,
and Edited and Revised by the Rev. W. SCORESBY, D.D.
London; Printed by M. MASON, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row.
TRANSCRIBERS’ NOTES
Page 17: villany as in the original
Page 28, Footnote F: incidently as in the original
Pages 34, 210: taught as in the original
Page 42: sea-faring standardised to the more common seafaring
Page 43: seaman-like standardised to the more common seamanlike
Pages 44, 101, 109, 113, 225: harponeers as in the original
Page 71: Section VI corrected to Section V
Page 81: teazing as in the original
Page 82: reconnoissance as in the original
Page 93: thermometic as in the original
Page 94: hybernating as in the original
Page 103, 183: inconsistent hyphenation of Greenlandman/Greenland-man as in
the original
Page 105: stratagy as in the original
Pages 106, 118: inconsistent hyphenation of leeside/lee-side as in the
original
Page 112: correspondently as in the original
Page 127, 146, 225: harponeer as in the original
Page 132: cabouse as in the original
Pages 141, 190: inconsistent hyphenation of hundredweight/hundred-weight as
in the original
Pages 143, 165: inconsistent hyphenation of goodwill/good-will as in the
original
Page 144: masthead standardised to the more common mast-head
Page 159: tenaceousness as in the original
Page 174: mechanician as in the original
Page 197: geer as in the original
Pages 200, 209: topmast standardised to the more common top-mast
Page 204: recal as in the original
Page 216: kelson, stantions as in the original
Advertisements: Rries corrected to Kries
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