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. . The lift we raifed feveral i Hands bearing from the North tothe Eaft, one of which is high and remarkable, bearing thenEali eight leagues from us, the others ate law flat iQands, fome are woody, and fome ar^barrcti and Tandy. The othersappear in this manner,. The 22d we faw a fmoke on the main, when firing a gun,Indians came off, with whom we had fome fmall commerce,and departed : The Jand and ifland appear thus. The 19thwe came to the river on the Eafl: fide, which the IiuUani toldus of, and found at the mouth of ic 8 feet water, and gettingin, met and touched on the ridge of ftones in two places 1 but getting frirther in anchored in 2 fathoms and a half ftelbwater: The river is a mile broad, and lies E. by S. OBohr the 1 ft with a flood, wc went a mile above a highpoint on the South fide, and found it ftill rocky. The riverand iflands appear in this manner, according to the draughthereunto annexed.
Size: 3250px × 769px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorbostonpubliclibraryjohnadamslibrarybrl, booksubjectpi
