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. . Th= .Iland Av„ lie, f,„m ,l,e Mwd, * J„„„, w. b, »iidl,mg,l™„S„„d i,, .nd,l,„efored.„ecTSu!,ocon near; wherefore, if bound to leeward, yon muft luve a fpccialcare, and your courfe (have been hcie rnformcdhow ir bears from the illand y^rr, or from the Sooth pomt ofGuard^hpn) to avoid the fime. ^ Dffcriptwn of the IJiand Mountfera ^o^>lMo is a round high ifland, full of tr«s, upon th=Eiift fide thereof you white foots, ik/fh««and bang upon ti,e South fi^^e of th. very point .^f the il]a:.d fomewhat off the land, it appears like a little illand ; andfailing either Eaft or Weft ftom that point, in the midft there-of, will appear a great broken ifland ? and vihen jou are S itj appears like a s Momtfr,A Defcriplhn of ibe IJland Redonde. The ifland Redonde bears about W. by N. and WNW. fromthe illand Mcuntftralo; it is a liide round illand, and high inthe middle like a haycock, and appears as this figure.
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