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. . A Bifcripiioa of the IJlani of Granada, The South-end of this ifland is in the htitude of 11 de-grees, 45 minutes, the land ftreiching on the Sou[h fideEaft and Weft nearell about five leagues , the Eall fioe otthe iOand is low land, on the W^ft fide of the idand 15 alow point, almoft even with the water, which fecms at a g e^c Thus fl-encth Barbaieci when 11 bears thus diftance like three iQands. The middle of the ifland is thehigheft land, which is craggy and broken; and about a , eaftward, lies a Cioal, but there is water enough thereonfor reafonable fhips; and on the South-fide there are two fmalllllands, with a rock between them , and off the NE. pointare two other Imall ifianda, to which in fummer time, greatftore of torioife, and the creature called a fea cow, relortiwhich affords great refrcflimenc ,c^.. A Defcription of tbi IJIand Granadilld. From the Eaft point of Granada to theit is due North feven or eight ieagues. Ttfagged iJland, having round about it many Other fmall illands,and therefore dangerous to come near in the nioht. Of thefcfmall idands, one Coelza, being a iow wiihered barrf-niDand; another Culiagua, from hence heretofore were broughtI,, abundance of pea
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