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Cover of Voyage of the Sonora in the second Bucareli expedition to explore the Northwest coast, survey the port of San Francisco, and found Franciscan missions and a presidio and pueblo at that port. The journal kept in 1775 on the Sonora by Don Francisco Antonio Mourelle, the second pilot of the fleet constiuting the sea division of the expedition, translated by the Hon. Daines from the original Spanish manuscript, reprinted line for line and page for page from Barrington's Miscellanies published in London in 1781; with concise notes showing the voyages of the earliest explorers on the coast, the sea and land expeditions of Galvez and of Bucareli for settling California and for founding missions, and many other interesting notes as well as an entirely new index to both text & notes, by Thomas C. Russell; together with a reproduction of the de la Bodega Spanish Carta general showing Spanish discoveries, etc., on the coast up to 1791 and also a portrait of Sir Daines Barrington

Voyage of the Sonora in the second Bucareli expedition to explore the Northwest coast, survey the port of San Francisco, and found Franciscan missions and a presidio and pueblo at that port. The journal kept in 1775 on the Sonora by Don Francisco Antonio Mourelle, the second pilot of the fleet constiuting the sea division of the expedition, translated by the Hon. Daines from the original Spanish manuscript, reprinted line for line and page for page from Barrington's Miscellanies published in London in 1781; with concise notes showing the voyages of the earliest explorers on the coast, the sea and land expeditions of Galvez and of Bucareli for settling California and for founding missions, and many other interesting notes as well as an entirely new index to both text & notes, by Thomas C. Russell; together with a reproduction of the de la Bodega Spanish Carta general showing Spanish discoveries, etc., on the coast up to 1791 and also a portrait of Sir Daines Barrington

Francisco Antonio (1750-1820) Mourelle de la Rúa