Memoir, Descriptive and Explanatory: To Accompany the New Chart of the Atlantic Ocean and Comprising Instructions, General and Particular, for the Navigation of that Sea |
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anchor anchorage appears Atlantic Azores Bank Bay of Biscay blow breeze calm Canaries Cape Antonio Cape Blanco Cape Hatteras Cape St Cape Verde Cape Verde Islands Capt Captain Livingston Channel Chart chronometer coast compass course current setting danger degrees direction distance East Point easterly eastward entrance fathoms fathoms of water feet Florida Funchal gale given ground Gulf Gulf-Stream Harbour heat island Isle islet Jamaica land latitude leagues Lighthouse longitude lunar Madeira meridian miles moon navigators nearly noon North Point northern northward observations ocean parallel passage Port position prevail reef remarkable Requisite Tables River rocks S.W. Point sail Scilly season seen ship ship's shoal shore Sierra Leon soundings southerly southward Spanish steer Strait Strait of Florida Strait of Gibraltar stream Survey temperature Tenerife thence thermometer tide town trade-wind variation velocity vessel voyage weather West westerly westward wind Windward