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. . Thu II , ,„ ,1 Mr ^ A Difcriphon ef the IJland Defeadi. The ifland Dtfeada lies ENE. and WSW. having trees upon It, and is proportioned like a galley ; the NE end thereof appears like a head or prow of a gallery ; but coming near, and pafllng by the N. end of it. you perceive mlem tT.« i^^ fand, withWftreaksLalerv ,,^f. ^; -l .hereof appears like a tilt of a gallery. Itliesin the latitude of i6 degrees, ao minutes,and^ears m thefe Jeveral forms. Thus appears , when it bears NW. b^ W, fix^/iven leagues appears Defiada, bearing SSE. ieven leagues .off. AD^ptioK of the Caribfcee-Iflands. 29
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