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£ 5r Defiriftkn of tie Caribbee Mands;. jf DefcTiptioH ef Iht JJland of Barbadoes. From the ifiand 7obagi> to thp iflind Barhd^n, the courfeis N. by E. about 40 le;^. it lieth in the latitude of 13 deg. 5min. when coming t>om the E. ward and N. end thereofbear-ing W. bvN. and WNW. about 5 Icagaes from you, andtheSW, point WSW. then is the point thereof thehigheft lanii. And from the E. point to the fouthward, theland is even and declines downwards, but betwixt the Eaftpoint and the N. point, the land is uneven, ragged and length 30 fin^/ift miles, and 12 miles broad,having 00 the E fide thereof levera! points of land lying into the fca, with rocks lying off mod: of them, the land appearinggreen and pleafint on that fide. The SW. point thereof makes a bay called Carlip bay,wherein you may anchor in what depth of water you pleafe,in 12 15, 20, or jofach. but the nearer in theworft road is all over rocky and foul ground, therefore thofethat anchor there muft have a fpccial care
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