The English pilot. [cartographic material] : The fourth book. Describing The West-India navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly 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 Islands. Also, A new Description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, East and West New- Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina. showing, The Courses and Distances from one Place to another; the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, the Setting of the Tides and Currents, &c. With many other Things necessary to be known in Navigation. (1775)

Thornton, John, 1641-1708, Fisher, William, fl. 1669-1691, Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL, Boston Public Library (John Adams Library) BRL · London : Printed for J. Mount, T. Page, and W. Mount, on Tower-Hill. · leaf 96

An illustration from The English pilot. [cartographic material] : The fourth book. Describing The West-India navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly 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 Islands. Also, A new Description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, East and West New- Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina. showing, The Courses and Distances from one Place to another; the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, the Setting of the Tides and Currents, &c. With many other Things necessary to be known in Navigation., 1775, leaf 96 — thereof a bank of fand; iherefore to fail in you muftkeep along the Weft-fide, where in the entrance you have notabove two fathom water, but when you are in, youll have fiveor fix fath. All along ihis coaft, till you come to the liverWya or Mabary, the boLtom is mud and oazy ground. Thus appears… … Here follows a dsfcription of the river Wra, or Mahury, and iiland Caiana, or Cayenne,with direftions ±0 fail into it. From the river Cmnna to the river Ijya^ the cootfe is Northncsreft ; the river IVya goes between the iiland Caiana andRiverWp. the main, reaching many miles into the land. The…

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