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. . 44 J Difirlption of the IJland Cuba, Thus apptars ilic land before the. A Bcfiripiion of the Bay H O N D A. The entrance of ihc Bay NoTid,! is wide and large, the bayreaches S. and N. and wljen failing in with diis coiirfi^ you wiJlfee a Icd^e of rocks on your larboard-fide j ri-acliin^ off fromtIieEaftthore,andoLitheWeft-fidealfo reaches another ledge,to which youmayfailasnear asyoucan llirow a flone, Jeavijigit on your ftarbnard-fide i ihia ledge reaches from ihc Weilpoint, laying off about S. and S. by W, a mulkei-fhot. Inthe entrance of the Weft-fide you have abont + or 5 fath; andbeing got a little in, you will fte an ifland lying on your lar^board-fidc. behind which you may fail, and will find about 4fathom water, from that ifland nlfo readies a liai qt a muilicifliot. The ground here is very ftcep and clay, having neitherebb nor flood worth taking notice of. Marks by wbicbyou viaybiov; tit Bay of Hondaj When coming from fca you muH bring the high hill withthe flat dent in the middle to bear South Wtft from you. be-ing the higheft hill thereabouts,
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