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Cook Navigation Manuscript
GB 0103 MS ANGL 7 · c1760

Manuscript, c1760, entitled 'Directions for sailing from the harbour of Halifax to Quebec, by James Cook, Master of His Majesty's Ship Northumberland'. The text is written in Cook's hand throughout. Pasted into the manuscript are a table showing latitude and longitude of capes etc (f 17r) and a list of names, mostly of native chiefs encountered in the Pacific on Cook's first and second voyages (f 18r).

Cook , James , 1728-1779 , explorer
Firth Papers
GB 0103 MS ADD 196 · 1875-c1900

Notes on bibliographical references on the topography of London in the seventeenth century.

Firth , Sir , Charles Harding , 1857-1936 , Knight , historian