A Voyage of Discovery to the Strait of Magellan - With an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants; And of the Natural Productions of Patagonia #233175

The authority of the whole is not to be questioned. Its importance to mariners, particularly in the present eventful crisis of South American affairs, and of our intimate connections and frequent intercourse with the western coasts of the Spanish possessions (to say no thing of our growing navigation to New Holland and the whole Pacific), is self-evident — the notices respecting the productions of the South American promontory.