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. . ay per- ,\ Hu;^ceive a rod; about four or Eve leagues from you, betweenwhich and the main you may fail and come to an anchor in 3or 4 fathom water, lying open with the river, where you feeas it were three hills (but they are not fo) lying on the Weft-fide. If you would go further up, keep along the Weft-ljdcon the bank, and fo run up and you cannot do amifs, The river CunvoCul/eway, which is fmall and narrow, and r c« a little to the weftward of Cupcrwaka, has, on the eafter-moft part thereof a bank of fand; iherefore to fail in you muftkeep along the Weft-fide, where in the entrance you have notabove two fathom water, but when you are in, youll have fiveor fix fath. All along ihis coaft, till you come to the liverWya or Mabary, the boLtom is mud and oazy ground. Thus appears the coaft between Wympoco^ or Oyapoch-, anii river TVja, or Muhury^ when you failalong by them about half a league from thelhore, and muft be joined by their rcfpedlive letters, Catif. Jlainary. Camaribo. Here follows a dsfcription of the river Wra, or Mahury, and iiland Caiana, or Cayenne,with direftions ±0 fail into it. From the river Cmnna to the river Ijya^ the cootfe is Northncsreft ; the river IVya goes bet
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