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. . In this manner appears the iJland Cura 5;.!, when you arc diftant fVom it about 4 leagues and a two are one continued land, the ktters AA muft be ioined?. This itland Aruha lies from Cura .^iand W. the road is on thcNW. fidewhich b a little illind which you mullkave sf tb: IJland Aruba. Curazoa almoft E. You may, when in the road, lie in 5 fath. water fandy ground-,and befides the road round the ifland you cannot get [ is a low iQand but has two little hills, one of which appearslike a fugar loaf, it is about five leagues in circumference;inhabited by Indians and Spaniards, and lies North from CapeSs. Romm, S or y leagues. In this Manner appears the iiland Ani/ii, when you are about two leagues diftant from the endthereof, from whence you may plainly difcern Cape St. Reman. within very wide and broad, reaching a great way into thecountry, having fevera] rivers venting themfelves tliereunto,which makes the water good co drink. There aru in the en-trance thereof two or three fgiall iflands or rocks, one whereofis called I/la Taper, being the biggeft of them; the other to theEaftward of this is called han Boza. The Eafli poin
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