[DRAGE, Theodore Swain (1712-ca 1774) or Charles SWAIN, attributed to]. An Account of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, by Hudson's Streights, to the Western and Southern Ocean of America. Performed in the Year 1746 and 1747, in the Ship California, Capt. Francis Smith, Commander. London: Mr. Jolliffe, Mr. Corbett and Mr. Clarke, 1748.

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