The English pilot. The fourth book. Describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the R...
The English pilot. The fourth book. Describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones. [electronic resource] : 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, Antegoa, Barmudoes, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbe and Bahama Islands. Also, a new description of Newfound-Land, New-England, New-York, East and West New-Jersey, Dellewar-Bay, Virginia, Mary-Land, 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 very much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions, not before published. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.
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London : Printed for Rich. and Will. Mount, and Tho. Page, in Postern-Row on Tower-Hill, MDCCXVI. [1716]
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MDCCXVI. [1716]
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English
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[2],66p.,plates : ill.,maps ; 2°.
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Publisher
London : Printed for Rich. and Will. Mount, and Tho. Page, in Postern-Row on Tower-Hill, MDCCXVI. [1716]
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
MDCCXVI. [1716]
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The English pilot. The fourth book. Describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones. [electronic resource] : 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,...
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"The 'English pilot' series was first initiated by John Seller, but 'The fourth book' was issued under the partnership of William Fisher and John Thornton" (NUC).
Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
Citation / References Note
Tooley, R.V. Maps and map-makers, p. 61.
Additional physical form availability note
Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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