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. . t of theharbnur is by the middle iQand, which is the biggeft of thethree. Here is good water in many places, and gt>od ftoreof fifti and fowl i here is commonly a frelh breeze from theEaflward all day, and open to the North. On the Weft-fid^ of Cape Cah Francois is a great bay, laying in SW and the land tends onalong Cape Francois NHW. or thereabouts, and is called theScouh Bay, but why fo called we know not. When failing from Cape Cabron to Cape Francois, which 11about fix hours fail, you will firlt fee a point of land on theEaft-fidc of the Cape, which oftentimes, at firft fight, youwill fuppofe to be the Cape; but coming nearer you will feeyour miftake, and when you are due North off Cape i^anfo/j,you will perceive to the Eaftward of the Cape a very fteeppoint of land, which feems to be divided from the main, andrunning off the land rlfes higher and higher, fo that thehigheft part of the land lays open to the fea fo high, thstyou cannot fee the land wichb, and appears after this. Thi belongs to the other, the Letters A imuft be joined together. The hillock C bearing SW. andSW by W from you.
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