The English pilot. [electronic resource] : 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, straits, 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 carribbee and Bahama Islands. Also, a new description of Newfoundland, New-England, New-York, East and West New-Jersey, Dellawar-Bay, Virginia, Maryland, and Carolina, &c. Shewing the courses and distances form 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.
1765
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The English pilot. [electronic resource] : 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, straits, 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 carribbee and Bahama Islands. Also, a new description of Newfoundland, New-England, New-York, East and West New-Jersey, Dellawar-Bay, Virginia, Maryland, and Carolina, &c. Shewing the courses and distances form 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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English pilot. Book 4.
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London : Printed for J. Mount, and T. Page, on Tower-Hill, M.DCC,LXV. [1765]
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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[2],66p.plates : ill.,maps ; 2⁰.
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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.
Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
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Tooley, R.V. Maps and map-makers, p.61
English Short Title Catalog, N16938.
English Short Title Catalog, N16938.
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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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