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Paper, 'Of the northern parts of the coast of Labrador' by Roger Curtis

Reference number: L&P/6/34

Date: 1774

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Subject: Exploration

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Particulars of the country of Labradore, extracted from the papers of Lieutenant Roger Curtis, of His Majesty's Sloop the Otter with a plane-chart of the coast.'

Read 24 February 1774

Reference number
L&P/6/34
Earliest possible date
1774
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
128 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of the northern parts of the coast of Labrador' by Roger Curtis, 1774, L&P/6/34, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_34/paper-of-the-northern-parts-of-the-coast-of-labrador-by-roger-curtis, accessed on 20 June 2025

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