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. . difcern from the Top-maft head A DefiripUmi 0/ ih yiand Saona. The iliand Soona is a very fruitful ifland, abounding withCafava 1 fo tliat it hath oftentimes been co the Spaniards as agranary, whereby they have been fuftained. This ifland hasboth on the S. and N. fides feveral fhoals, but hot reaching faroff; The appearance of the coaft we have akeady defcribed. CapB del Engan Cape del Engano is the Eaftermoft point of the ifland of Hif-paniota; this cape is low land, and the point runs flat off 3great way to fea. Cape Engano Weft half South, diltant 6leagues, makes two heads like a wedge. And lb much fliallfuffice for the Ifland B/pankla. This 42 A Defcription of the IJland Qa^-a. This bay of Malamai i% about a league and a half in length; and as aforefaid wltliout the bay there U no anchor watering pbce is up the river in the arm, which extends 10 Seaward. Within the land to the Eaftward of Malanzas it appears thi The bay of Maianzas lies in thi» When you are about the bay of Malanzas, the land marked with the letter A, appears thus. When the round hlll of Pan di Matanxas bears SSW. about 3 leagues from you, it appears as above. And when you lirrt fee it, it lecms like a
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