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 off he fandy point ftands another caftle and when you are in, yoiiwill Und It deep and wide enough ^ ou muft run to the Eaft-ward of the city to lie out of^ the waih of the fea, for thetrade-wind blows right in. Weftward is another river, cal-led Le Cfl/ifinjuft in the entrance lies an ifland, called Pajfays\which reaches with a fiat from the Weft point of the riverclear thwart; there are leveral others, of which thcfe are theprincipal,on this fide the illand. On the Eaft-fide is the river Luzia, and on the South feweral rocks, both above and under water ; there lies alfothe ifiand Borequim, reaching North Weft and South the South-fide lie two rocks, from which tiic coaft to theWeftward, for fome leagues, has, fomewhat ofi^ Jbore, agreat ftioal aiid fome rocks i this flioal is called Bazo, andlies before the bay of Giiniaim, rlien follows the river !\ilMi,near which are fevcral rocks and Ilioals 1 then, farther Weft-ward, the river de Mtifl-fiues-, then tiie rivci. Thefe five profp-ftsftiew the appearance ot the liland/o)/© flirt, when the city b;ars South Weft from you, about a lejgue arid a half from the ihore : You may, in clear weather, fee it a long way off. TiiE Crofs
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