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RefNoL&P/5/146
LevelItem
TitleLetter, 'Of the Patagonians; written on board the the Swallow at Fort Famine' from Philip Carteret
Date14 January 1767
DescriptionSubject: Anthropology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Philip Carteret Esquire, Captain of the Swallow Sloop, to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S. on the inhabitants of the coast of Patagonia'

Read 25 January 1770
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1770.0002
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8086Carteret; Sir; Philippe (1642 - 1672); naval officer1642 - 1672
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