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Title: 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.
Year: 1775 (1770s)
Authors: Thornton, John, 1641-1708 Fisher, William, fl. 1669-1691 Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL Boston Public Library (John Adams Library) BRL
Subjects: Pilot guides Pilot guides Nautical charts Nautical charts Navigation
Publisher: London : Printed for J. Mount, T. Page, and W. Mount, on Tower-Hill.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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# C A S C O B (i A K 1) m JszAJV7?s Aj)ja cr.NT # ^ A Defcnption of Newfoundland. li They who intend for Ragged Harbmir wiih a (hip, muft goto the Northward of all the aforefaid rocks or iflands that liebefore i(, (which make the harbour) and run ft far to theN.ward till chcy bring Ragged Harbour o^cn ; then fail in be-tween a round i/land which lies cjofe to the main, and a greatbUck rock, which lies off the North end of all tlie Raggedylands, fail ill till they are about the middle of the aforclaidiflatids, which will be to feaward of iliem, and anchor there ;tliis is a river of frclh water at the head of the harbour, butno inhabitants. Two miies to tlie Northward of Ragged Haritmr is the hir-bourof Co«d//Hif, which is a very good and lafe harbour, andgoofl ground, not above8 fath. from 3 to 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 fa-thom as you pleafe. You may with a leading wind fail betweenthe fmall idahd which m a little to the S.w.ird of the harbour,and have 4 or 5 fathom at the l.-aft going tlirough

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