The English pilot[cartographic material] : The fourth bookDescribing The West-India navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River AmazonesParticularly delineating The Sea Coasts, Capes, Headlands, Rivers, Bays, Roads, Havens, Harbours, Streights, Rocks, Sands, Shoals, Banks, Depths of Water, and Anchorage, with all the Islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama IslandsAlso, A new Description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, East and West New- Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolinashowing, The
The English pilot[cartographic material] : The fourth bookDescribing The West-India navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River AmazonesParticularly delineating The Sea Coasts, Capes, Headlands, Rivers, Bays, Roads, Havens, Harbours, Streights, Rocks, Sands, Shoals, Banks, Depths of Water, and Anchorage, with all the Islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama IslandsAlso, A new Description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, East and West New- Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolinashowing, The Courses and Distances from one Place to another; the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, the Setting of the Tides and Currents, &cWith many other Things necessary to be known in Navigation. . ence to the northward fix or [even miles, and then rathe northward four miles, is all dangerous rocks and breakersreaching two or three miles from the ihore; buc fmall veffelamay fa,; between them and the main. The chief hatbours of IS a bar-harbour, there being a off from the North point of the harbour South-Weft, to the land on the South-fide ; the deepeft water is onthe louthermofl part of the bar, there being ,4 feet, on theNorth part but .1. In coming into this h^arbour, you muftkeep along the South ftore, there beins; nothing to hurtvoufrom fliip-ftern ; all along into the harbour you may comefonear the , as to caft a ftone on fhore; there beine r tfathom and a .,alf clofe by it. This ifland belongs to^heEnghjh, and has mthefe few years pnft, been murh improved,by the care and induftry of the planters, fo that it now pro,duces abundance of fugar, * Thus appears Anligua, bearjng WNW nine leagues off S^ A Defcriptkn of the /? Defiriptkn of the IJlmid ifiand Bermuda lies North from the Amigan,being a low flat idand ; and ofl^ the SW. point there is afiioal a bng way offs and off the point lies ano\herflioa
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