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• Title:A voyage to the South Atlantic and round Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean : for the purpose of extending the spermaceti whale fisheries and other objects of commerce, by ascertaining the ports, bays, harbours, and anchoring births [sic] in certain islands and coasts in those seas at which the ships of the British merchants might be refitted / undertaken and performed by Captain James Colnett, of the Royal Navy, in the ship Rattler.
  
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• Author/Creator:Colnett, James, 1755?-1806.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Combe, William, 1742-1823, compiler.
  Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection.
  
• Published/Created:London : Printed for the author by W. Bennett, 1798.
  

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  • Location:Temporarily shelved at RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS medium oversizeWhere is this?
    c.1  Shelved at RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
    
  • Call Number: F5817.31 .C71
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:A copy is shelved in the Chung Room
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Rattler (Ship)
  Voyages and travels.
  South America--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
  Pacific Coast (South America)--Description and travel.
  
• Description:xviii, 179 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill., folded maps, port. ; 30 cm.
  
• Additional formats:Available also online.
  
• Local note:UBC Library has a copy in The Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection.
  
• Notes:Compiled by William Combe from Captain Colnett's notes. cf. Dict. nat. biog., under Combe.