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. . tfe is Northncsreft ; the river IVya goes between the iiland Caiana andRiverWp. the main, reaching many miles into the land. The iiland CaiDna is inhjbired with Sbiiays, and multitudesCuinalfland. ^j j-^^^i^ ^^^^j, abundance of wild Iwine. and other wild bcafts,which may be eafily taken. There is aKo great ftore of fruir,of fcveral forts, and filh in abundance. Gn the Weft-fide of the ifland Jies another river, whichis called the river of Caiana -, there is a good and 1 harbour, being the beft on the whole coaft for accommodt>tion, broad enough for many Ihips to li; in, andhas aboutfour or five fathom water in the road. If you would go intothe river or road of Caiana, you muft go without thefe fouffmall iflands whith Jieof Cfliaaa. About fix or eight lea<ruesto the caftward of Ca-ana tiver lies another- ifland, foraewhalbigger, Ciilled or beft known by the name of CenflaiU; hereis i paflage betwixt i[ and the main. O Jftand 5^ A Defcription of the Coajl of Guayanu. IQand IHind Con- And if it happen ihac you iibk. fmal! iflands already fpoken of, and the irtand Canjiailf, y ought to haul away a more northrrly coutlr, at itaft two orthree points, by reafon of ihi; flrong current wh
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