• Medientyp: E-Book
  • Titel: Londons wonder : being a most true and positive relation of the taking and killing of a great whale neer to Greenwich; the said whale being fifty eight foot in length, twelve foot high, fourteen foot broad, and two foot between the eyes. At whose death was used harping-irons, spits, swords, guns, bills, axes, and hatchets, and all kind of sharp instruments to kill her: and at last two anchors being struck fast into her body, she could not remoove them, but the blood gusht out of her body, as the water does out of a pump. The report of which whale hath caused many hundred of people both by land and water to go and see her; the said whale being slaine hard by Greenwich upon the third day of Iune this present yere 1658. which is largely exprest in this following discourse
  • Erschienen: London: Printed for Francis Grove neere the Sarazens head on Snow-hill, 1658
    Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999
  • Erschienen in: Early English Books Online / EEBO
  • Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource ([14] p)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Schlagwörter: Omens Early works to 1800 ; Whaling England Early works to 1800
  • Hersteller der Reproduktion: Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999
  • Reproduktionsnotiz: Electronic reproduction; Digital version of: (Thomason Tracts ; 243:E2134[2])
  • Entstehung:
  • Anmerkungen: Annotation on Thomason copy: "June"; "June 6."
    Thomason, E.2134[2]
    Reproduction of the original in the British Library
    Signatures: A [-A7]
    Wing (2nd ed.), L2957
  • Beschreibung: eebo-0018