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. . t, where it exaftlyUid down; therefore I inform thofe who are bound to that coaftthat they may not be deceived, as I myfelf had like to havebeen in gomg to St. Ji,bn\ on the zgth of June, 1^15, at 3oclock in (he morning, and then in thelat. of 48d. 44m. hav-mg been juft a mondi that every day fromPIyviaaih &««i,boundto St, Jphni, brought too, and founded, where we had 92 fa-thom water, fine whit fand, which I fuppofe to be the out-ward edge of the bank : For after we had failed from thenceW. z6d. 39m, South about iS miles, (dcut miftakimi,oi- ratherdont mifiaktymrfihes by fmlins W. i6d. jom. you muftundtrftand I made rtp courji goodfg, my cmiipafs at that lime hav-ing igd. fpyi varialioH, uiiderftand the fame of (he clhcr courfes&c.) we founded again, and had but ;i fath, find fand as be-fore; and this I reckond ihc middle of the faid bank, or .itleaft the ihoaleft part of it; for having failed horn, this about34 miles upon a W, sSd. pom. South courfe, and then founded. and 50 fathom to the very rocks Nofe, and the above menlioned charts make it above 40 leag. from St John s to theinward edge of the bank, which is about 22 leag, out of theway (I fuppofe they looked upon 22 leag as nothi
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