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. . this; After they hsd taken their a Place, they took only Notict of the Mcndian Diftahce at theycalled it, till they were arrived at the Place where they were bound; thenthej look the middle Lat. of both Plaocs, and with the whole MeridianDimince found out their Longitude, aitho perhaps at thefame Time theyhad failed thro JO feveral Dcg. or Parallels of Lit. before they arrived attheir dditedPort. And how then is it poQible that they fhould have «trueLongitude, ifiheydidnot finditonccin24Houi5at ieaft, arl did at laftperfuade fometo do, after being made fenfible offc great an Error ai iteywere guilty of; (^c. A Defcripiion of the JJland of St. Peters, hy Capt. William Taverner. ?^H E Iftandof St Paiish (ubjea to Fogs of adlfFercnC dryer is Beach enough for loo^oati. It lies in 47 Dc^es 10 Mini Latitude, where the Compsfi hsth tm-o Point! , Niii, That Che fmallCroli^wn this Chan fignily Rocks undsi W»[iand the Figure fhew rhe Depth of the Water in n^ ?A Chari :yF()UXDl .AIM Vyjhvn liltlcPlaceiilia (^*. ut^/itcj }/u /Lirliutr /fi^^^^rA,.u{ S 7 /^^?, i I •^ l,r,x,,Hni/t,j//u tW?,i///ymulL^ 9- .? /.? ) fi «p ::X AS. ^?^hof/i\rft£,yj,^ ^, ^W^
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