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. . h as to-bring the Mather Kill and Gammon ifle and you are the lengili of the Guiding fand. The MgtherKill flieweth itfelf with a fair opening with trees on each fide,as if a pair of gates flood open, then fleer as the draught di-re-fts you. But if you fail to theWeHw:ird of the Middie Groundhave a care of being hooked in witli Bombay-Hooks fliore lies off as you fee with the Ihoals and flats,as in the draught. Hore a SE. moon makes a full Sea, uponthe fuU and change, the tides fets ENE. and WS W- DireElmis for Virginia and Marykntl, SUCH as,are bound for Jir^/n/a and MiiTj/flJiii, wiU findmany limes on the coaft of America various winds andweather, and ftreams and currents alfo, therefore thev mufttake the niore care, and not truft with much confidence todead reckoning. , For by experience has been found fometinles in twenty-fourhours, luch currents as hath carried them either to theNorthward or _Southward, contrary to the reckoning ??M ^ v^-X-v-
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