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. . nt, which takes dp a great fpace within it, and iacalled the Great Sound. The entrance into the Great Soundhbetween Spamfl^ point and 7«/««if s ifland. Within this foundare feveral other iflands with bays, wz. Pagilis port, lyhitcorn bay, &c. on the South Eaft fide arc feveral other bays ?and upon the ifland are feveral points and forts, which afCplaced in the draught in their right places. i would advife everyone to take efpeiialcare upon this coaft,tor there are abundance of rocks, which are very dangerous ?Likewife hereabouts it is very fubjcft to tempeftuous weatlicras has been much obferved by many, who have often been ii(the mjl-Indies, and have thought it very well, when they havepait the latitudes of this ifland with good weather for youalways hear them faj, thatabout Bermudas they hare had ftronffgufts of wind, isc. ° Now we return to the Amazons on the coaft ofCuianaio givea defcription between that and Cape Florida, being die pTaci:?whwe we left off. -5<»-. _*^ 1_ ?. •!._ 5_^4 - ADefcription of the Pom m,d ljia«ds upon theCoajl betmeen the hmxLO^,and Cafe Florida. mu. If y™ come upon the Sfm* , AfrilaAStrt. or ok yoo «ill fdiiom mifi f Wterly wmii, mJ >
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