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, 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, Dellevar-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.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for W. and J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower-Hill, MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:
1 atlas (4, 3-66 pages, [43] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, maps ; 48 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:
Scales differ.
Notes:
The English pilot was first initiated by John Seller. The fourth book, by William Fisher and John Thornton, was first issued in 1689. See Tooley.
Contents:
Charts: [1] A new and correct chart of the western and southern oceans, showing the variations of compass according to the latest best observations -- [2] A new and correct chart of the part of America from New Found Land to Hundson's Bay -- [3] A new generall chart for the West Indies, of E. Wright's projection vut. Mercator's chart -- [4] A generall chart of the western ocean -- [5] A chart of the sea coast of New Foundland, New Scotland, New England, New York, New Jersey, with Virginia and Maryland -- [6] The harbour of Casco Bay and island adjacent / by Capt. Cyprian Southicke [i.e. Southack] ; Em. Bowen sculpt. -- [7] A new and correct chart of the coast of New Foundland, from Cape Raze to Cape Bonavista, with Chebucto Harbour in Nova Scotia, done from the latest observations -- [8] A chart shewing part of the sea coast of New Foundland from the Bay of Bulls to little Placentia / exactly and carefully drawn by Iohn Gaudy ; S. Parker sculp. -- [9] Harbor Grace, part of New-found-land -- [10 (on verso of 9)] Bay Bulls, part of Newfound-land -- [11] Cattalina Harbor, part of New-found-land -- [12 (on verso of 11)] Port Bonavista, part of New-found-land -- [13] A correct map of the coast of New England -- [14] A draught of New York, from the Hook to New York Town / by Mark Tiddeman -- [15] Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, east & west New Jarsey -- [16] A draught of Virginia, from the capes to York in York River and to Kuiquotan or Hamton in James River / by Mark Tiddeman -- [17] A large draft of South Carolina, from Cape Roman to Port Royall -- [18] A correct chart of the Caribee Islands -- [19] A correct chart of Hispaniola with the windward passage ... / by C. Price ... -- [20] A new and correct draught of the Bay of Matanzas, on the north side of the island Cuba, done from a survey in the year 1729 / by Robt. Pearson -- [21] The island of Jamaica -- [22] A new chart of the Bahama islands and the windward passage -- [23] A draught of the coast of Guiana, from the River Oronoque to the River Amazones -- [24] A new and correct chart of the trading part of the West Indies -- [25] An exact draught of the Gulf of Darien & the coast to Porto Bello with Panama in the South Sea & the Scotch settlement in Calledonia.
Subject Terms:
Coasts -- North America -- Atlantic Coast. | Coasts -- Caribbean Area. | Navigations -- North America -- Atlantic Coast. | Navigation -- Caribbean Area. | Dowling, William -- Ownership. | Shaw, William -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Nautical charts. | Atlases. | Pilot guides.
Contributors:
Thornton, John, 1641–1708, cartographer. | Fisher, W. (William), -1692. | W. & J. Mount & T. Page, publisher.