 | William Fordyce Mavor - Africa - 1802 - 388 pages
...Cook informs his readers that the following observations on these islands are written by Mr. Anderson Perhaps there is scarcely a spot in the universe that affords a more luxuriant prospect, than the south-east part of Otaheite. The hills are high and steep; but they are covered to the very summits... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 546 pages
...knowledge of these changes, and yet pretend to have drawn some general conclusions from their effects; for they say, when the sea has a hollow sound, and...weather, but, if it has a sharp sound, and the waves s^eed each other fast, that the reverse will happen. Perhaps there is scarcely a spot in the universe... | |
 | Compendium - 1822 - 342 pages
...nearly in the centre of the group, is the most considerable and celebrated. Captain Cook says, •" There is scarcely a spot in the universe that affords a more luxuriant prospect than the south-east part of O'TaheiteV' The hills are high and steep, and in many places craggy : but they are... | |
 | Robert Kerr - Explorers - 1824 - 526 pages
...knowledge of these changes, and yet pretend to have drawn some general conclusions from their effects ; for they say, when the sea has a hollow sound, and...universe that affords a more luxuriant prospect than the SE part of Otaheite. The hills are high and steep ; and, in many places, craggy. But they are covered... | |
 | James Cook - Voyages and travels - 1842 - 644 pages
...knowledge of these changes, and yet pretend to have drawn some general conclusions from their effects ; for they say when the sea has a hollow sound, and...universe that affords a more luxuriant prospect than the south-east part of Otaheite. The hills are high and steep ; and, in many places, craggy. But they are... | |
 | Alexander George Findlay - 1851 - 782 pages
...to that at present attainable, little will be said here of its minor features. Capt. Cook says:—" Perhaps there is scarcely a spot in the universe that affords a more luxuriant prospect than the SE part of Otaheite. The hills are high and steep, and, in many places, craggy; but they are covered... | |
 | David Laing Purves - Discoveries in geography - 1874 - 856 pages
...what may now be considered as having become necessary to their comfortable existence.1 CHAPTER IX.1 PERHAPS there is scarcely a spot in the universe that affords a more luxuriant prospect than the south-east part of Otaheite. The hills are high and steep, and in many placee craggy ; but they are... | |
 | Indians of North America - 1901 - 574 pages
...been extolled by almost every traveller who has visited Tahiti. In Captain Cook's description he says: "Perhaps there is scarcely a spot in the universe that affords a more luxuriant prospect than the southeast part of Otaheite. The hills are high and steep and in many places craggy; but they are covered... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Ethnology - 1894 - 630 pages
...extolled by almost every traveller who has visited it. In Captain Cook's description, he says : — " Perhaps there is scarcely a spot in the universe that affords a more luxuriant prospect than the south-east part of Otaheite. The hills are high and steep, and in many places craggy ; but they are... | |
 | Nicholas Senn - Manuscripts, English - 1906 - 354 pages
...how Captain Cook was impressed with Tahiti when he first cast his eyes upon this gem of the Pacific: Perhaps there is scarcely a spot in the universe that affords a more luxuriant prospect than the southeast part of Otaheite [Tahiti.] The hills are high and steep, and, in many places, craggy. But... | |
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Perhaps there is scarcely a spot in the universe that affords a more luxuriant prospect than the south-east part of Otaheite. The hills are high and steep ; and, in many places, craggy. But they are covered to the very summits with trees and shrubs, in... 
