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. . eag. the ftream is gene-rally ii;tting to leeward i if you keep up SW. by S. you cannotwell pafs by it, witliout ieeing the houles on the (bore, on near the tower ftands a church , you may plainly fee it 4leagues off. Stand in with it, within a mile and a half of theIhore, then you may fee Heg-IJIaiidv/hkh makes the harbour,bear down along by it, till you come elofe aboaril the Weftpoint; then lull in within a cables length of it, and you willprcfciitly come in 4 fathom water. If it is tide of ebb youmuft anchor, if flood you may turn up, taking care to fliuna reef of fand which comes away from Heg-ljland, and ftretchcsclear up the harbour above the caftle half a mile, the channellays (lesreft the caftle, being about two cables length may anchor above the caftle in 3 fathom at low-water,fandy ground. if you are bound from Providctice through the gulph, yourcourfe CO 5«r)i iflands to weather them, is NNW. diftantli leagues. From Benj iflands to the Grand Babama, ihe. A Defcription of Jamaica, and the Bahama IJlandi- 4? couri^is NW. byN. diftanc 33 leagues, which will bnrtgyouabouc 7 leagues ro the Weftward of the Weft-end of GrandBahama, fteet away NVV. about 8 or 9 leagues,
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