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 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 Deiemher the ninth, being frozen up, we ment on the Ice to 2fmall ifland, lying in the middle ot the river, full of poplarwood, (which we wondered at) the whole country being fullof fpruce. j^pril 1669, the cold weatJier almoft over, theIiidiaH! began to refort to us. Jme calm and hot weather,we began to work on our ve/Tel, and fent boats to found theriver, who found it flowed eight feet water, and now onlywait for wind and tidc_^to carry hs down ihe river and overthe Ihoals. A S3 8i 81 80 7^ JS ]] JO J5 74 J3 J2 oil) D8 S] $6 6f> f4 $3 V2 6l 60 5 i
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