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. . ul, and no good anchor-grouni*.The illand is well ftorcd with goats, but exceeding wild andhard to be caught. A Dtfcfiptm of ibi Coofi fl/Veneczula/m,i Socca del ioaU Rayj. from Boua dd Drago to the fa!t pond it is along the coaftbetween the iflands te/ligot -, the land a-breili of ihefc is verywild, with ragged point!, and uneven fiiore, and thereforecalled cape T«J Pmilai. Weftward of the cape the land fallsoff S where is an iQand called St. Juan; the land there isvery hilly to Jah di Cerihbcci, there it is low land to the faitpond in lionta Raya. The road here to the caftward of thepoint,a!moftopporite to thelitileiHandCod/sza, having thereinnear tour or five fathom water, and the maud Margmla to of you. But in failing along the coail, come no nearerhn fahm pgg ^ ^°^^- Upon all that po n he no f eih w o be had, and the neareft placehe you m a I ft hree leag. weftwatd of Gummia. TI la d o h E wa d of he point where the ftiips lie, », h withered trees and The Weft end bf (he fait pond is ftecp high land, and theS. and N. fule of the fak pond reaches whoNy in between the?hills fo far (hjt you cannot fie the end thereof; there is more(alt than a ihoufand fail of (hi
Size: 1911px × 1308px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorbostonpubliclibraryjohnadamslibrarybrl, booksubjectpi
