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. . outsWith fprmg tides the wind commonly blows for 7 or 3days together. And when die fun is got to the Southward ofthe equinodial, you have there the beft weather, and the moreSoutJierly the better. This bay is in the latitude of az min. North. ° From the river Porto Porca (fejlward. On the WJide oi Porta Pcna lay 3 or + Tmall iOands, be-hinil which IS a little nver called Ria Medio, to the ofthat nvtristhcrivercalled Rio Blanco, and point .^i^/.v. To the Weftward of point Abaki arcfeveral iOands, whichare c^led Cam di Bonavifta-, and fiom thence Southward tocape St. Anlb^ry, the ftiore is wholly environd with rocks andflioals, together with fome other fmali iftands, viz Ifie Colo-rada, and Caykms, near Cape St, Anlbeny. A Defiription of Cape St. Anthony Cape St. /IntboHy is low land full of flirubs and trees with-out lulls, the coaft alfo not fo dangerous as to the Eaftwardthereqf tothe bay of Pcrio Poha, the appearance thereof com-ing trom die lea is as Cape Ccrienlas inthefc t\ Thus appears Cape St Antioiiy^vih^n it bears NE. from Defcriptim of Capi Corientas, lo lbs Eajl-^uard of Cape St. Anthony,ich like Cape St. Anthony, low land, and likewife full of fm
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