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The life and adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish man. Relating particularly, his shipwreck near the South pole; his wonderful passage through a subterraneous cavern into a kind of new world; his there meeting with a gawry, or flying woman ... his extraordinary conveyance to the country of glums and gawrys, or men and women that fly. Likewise a description of this strange country, with the laws, customs, and manners of its inhabitants, and the author's remarkable transactions among them. Taken from his own mouth, in his passage to England, from off Cape Horn, in America, in the ship Hector.

Title:The life and adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish man. Relating particularly, his shipwreck near the South pole; his wonderful passage through a subterraneous cavern into a kind of new world; his there meeting with a gawry, or flying woman ... his extraordinary conveyance to the country of glums and gawrys, or men and women that fly. Likewise a description of this strange country, with the laws, customs, and manners of its inhabitants, and the author's remarkable transactions among them. Taken from his own mouth, in his passage to England, from off Cape Horn, in America, in the ship Hector.
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Note:Printed for W. Phorson, and B. Law, 1784
  
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