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. . f\ ^ ibuut 22 or 23 leagues And W (.ftv-ard * ^^ ~-%T^ ^ A Defcriftiofi of the IJland of Thefe leveral pieces belong A HifmptiBn ef the IJland of Tortudas. Between Porta Francuu and Cape Si. Nicholas is the illandtmiidai, which lias on die North fide certain Jlioals; and onthe South fide is a ihiall river -, to the Weftward of which liesa great ledge of rocks, ftretching along atmolt die wholeIciigih of the illanil, and channel between Tortudas and Hif-pamcla. Bur the road is on the E. fide of the iQand, by theletter A, and ta iibout -a mile to the Eailward of the road by the WeRward, the fame high land alters in (hape, and appears like a crown,., „,..„ „ hother, and mull be joined by the letters AA and BB. the letter B, by which you may fee the rocks whereon the fcabreaks at high water, but are at low water quite dry. The entrance into the road is between C and D, where youyou will have or fix fathom water, and when in you will havemore. This is a good road, when you are in, no wind canhurt you. There is another pallage by the letter E. but thereyou may not have ab
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