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. . and and appears full of woods. ass. The loth ftood away SE. and deepened, and to fteering away the next day, faw an ifland bearing E. 3 leagues off. and Roine rear it, faw great breaches, therefore went no further. o j & . 6 e The S. part of the land tends SE. and N W. latitude 53 defrrees 4 minutes. JThe ; 1 th, feeing we could not come near the ifland, drove°to the Eaftward until the ifland bore WSW. and W. by S. 3 leag. ing (aw feveral iflands bearing E. and NE. 4 or 5 leagues off. The land is fandy without treei. and off, and the indifferent high. The 12th, (hoaling 13th, in 10 fathom w: which appears in this manner faw the land from the N. to the W. 4 Icag. in length. ter we faw the land, being low ;and woody, bearing [from W. CO W. by S. 4 leaguues from it. The 14th, ftanding SSE. as the land lay, beine ! leaeue? from tr fmm,! , c.,nii .-j c i. ^ . to tend into a fmali bay, ftanding in 4 fathoms water i°the land bore from the SSE. to the N. and appeared as below,. A Defiription of Hudfonj Straits. The 15th we flood 10 the Northward, and anchoring in 7fathoms water, found a ftrong ebb from the SSE. 3 miles anhour. The lall of this ride Icrs round to the Northward, butthe flood
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