The English pilot. The fourth book. Describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones Particularly delineating the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, straits, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water and anchorage, with all the islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bemudas, 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, Dellavar-Bay, Virginia, Maryland, and Carolina, &c. Shewing 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. The whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page and Son, on Tower-Hill
1760, M,DCC,LX. [1760]
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | English Short Title Catalog, N65545. - Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library. - The 'English pilot' series was first initiated by John Seller, but "The fourth book" was originally issued under the partnership of William Fisher and John Thornton (NUC; Verner). - Tooley, R.V. Maps and map-makers, p. 61 |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (66p.,plates) ill.,maps 2° |