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. . harbour good for ihips, both greatand fmall, and were there a hundred fail without anchor orcable, they might lie without fear or danger; for which rea-fon the King has given order, that the Spaaijh fliips from allparts of the Indies fliould there meet, make up ilieir fleet, andcome home together. The city is a little within the mouth ofthe river, and on the W. fide. In the entrance of the riverfiands a high tower, where there is conftant watch kept to givenotice what fliips are coming out of fea. And as many Flagsas are hung out from the tower, fo many fliips thofe of thecity may underftand are on the coafl:. On the H. fl:ands acattle on a ihoal to clear the harbour, and no fliips goingeither in or out can run out of command of their guns. W henyou are 3 or +ieag. off to the Northward of Havanna, you mayfee two [round hommocks or hills, whjch lie far up in thecountry-, they do not appear much above the other draught of the harbour and city is as follows. ih--i ? 1 I -aaaai.
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