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. . arfhoJomew. T the latitude of 18 deg,iboutN. byE. andlrom Thus s the illand J/. Burihol A Befcription of the IJland St. Martin. Tlic ifland Si. Mariin lays in the taiitude of 18 deg, 16 rain. Between this ifland and Si. Bariholcmtiv lie many funken jocks, feme above water ; the iflatid is not above 5 leagues long, and three leagues broad, and lieth along FNE. hen it bears SE, by E. from you. the NW, point of St. Chnjlophen, Norih ; it appears at firftalmoft round, having on the North-lide of the ifland manyrocks, fome of them above, and lorae under water i the ap-pearance thereof ai 3 littk , when It bears aDuui icven leagues from yoL WSW, There are fcveral pood bays and roads, efpecially wit h a Levani or North Eaft wind. There is one very good on the Weft-fide, having 9 or i o fathom water, good fandy ground, I on one fide of it is a fftk pend, and on the other — ? I ones; the appearance of the illand is as follows. Thus appears the illand Si. Marliu, bearing NE, five leag. The Bav of St. ManiaFrom the Eaft-Me of Ntvis to the Weft fide of Si. Enrtholeinew, Si. ifimin, m^ ^nguiUa, you mullmake your way good North, or North by Weft, rounded with a great flioal laying off into the fea, b
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