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. . more than. 4 fathomv/aic, \Veft three cables length from die point; b\ir whenthe point bears ^E. you may haul up for the end ;when at anchor there is very good filhing; but there is notany frelh water to water a fhip. To ancbcr n Hifpaniola. Remarks were made going into SanfiBay^February the 6th,_1761. J^ms Bar lies about 11 leagues to the Eaft ward otJaqumslt; and 6 from cape Lopez, and is veryconvenient for cruizing (hips to wood and water, there beinga fine river in it; when coming from the Southward, and capeLopez bears from you four or five ^ues, you wiUfee to the Weftward white chalky cliffs; about fbuf or fivemUes to theEaflward of thefe cUffs you will fee a fine Savanna-,and a little to the Souch>vard of it is the rivers mouth ; tlieriver is beft known by a fmall hiil of rullies clofe to the Sea-fide, and the river rtins through them : The moft convenientolace to anciiui- for watering quick, is to bring the rivers?^ mouth Jjong ;£. ?it I 20 \ %% il Hi uihalnljble
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