Authority Cited: Ellis’s Voyage
Author name and dates: Henry Ellis (1721-1805)
BKG Bio-tweet: Irish explorer; sought Hudson’s Bay Northwest Passage; 1748 Voyage book; later slave trader and colonial Gov. of Georgia
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)[BKG Note: six Ellis cites identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, two Ellis cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No additional Ellis cits were identified in the 1773 Dict.]
Author name and dates: Henry Ellis (1721-1805)
BKG Bio-tweet: Irish explorer; sought Hudson’s Bay Northwest Passage; 1748 Voyage book; later slave trader and colonial Gov. of Georgia
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)[BKG Note: six Ellis cites identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, two Ellis cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No additional Ellis cits were identified in the 1773 Dict.]
- A voyage to Hudson's-Bay, by the Dobbs Galley and California, in the years 1746 and 1747, For discovering a North West Passage; with an accurate survey of the coast, and a short natural history of the country. Together with a fair view of the facts and arguments from which the future finding of such a passage is rendered probable. By Henry Ellis, Gent. agent for the proprietors in the said expedition. To which is prefixed, an historical account of the attempts hitherto made for the finding a passage that way to the East-Indies. Illustrated with proper cuts, and a new and correct chart of Hudson's-Bay, with the countries adjacent. 1748, London : Printed for H. Whitridge, at the Royal Exchange; docile [docil] (p.163); draught (p.165); drift (161); growl (163); inlet (164); keen (161); set (161); skin (161);
- Ellis (no work cited)