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. . ^ek, where is waterenough When in, but you muft obferve your time, and go inat a rifing water. The draught and depth of the bay is asfollows: When you are off the bay of Matauzai, you will fee a roundmountainfar up in the countr)-, which appears aboye the otherland, and when that bears SE. by E, from you, then are youopen with the bay, which lies in SE. by E. or SE. the beltridinp is in y fathom, as aforelVid, keeping within two cablesIcngtl to the Weft fliore, near a white rocky clifl\ which liestowards the bottom of the bay on the Weft-fide. Three cableslength to the Eaftward from the Weft-fide is a ftioal to theSE. about two cables length, where Captain Cmmiiins in theRichard and Sarah was a-ground coming out of the bay. E. 36 leagues from the bay of Maiaiizas, we were m fevehfath. tacked and ftood to the SE. and had 5, 6, 7, 8, ij, 15,.35 and 40 fath. about two milts, and then no ground. J Dejcnpthn of the Ijland of Draught of the Haven and C i t y of St. BO MING 0,. Crtjfl/frff is a low Tandy point, upon which are low biifhes, witli two or three trees, much refemblingihe Naze land. Ac rhis point is the river emptying itfdf into the fea, being very good frelfiwater, and eaTy
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