A New Nautical Directory for the East-India and China Navigation ...

William Herbert

W. Gilbert, 1804 - Navigation - 623 pages

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Of F the firft Voyages from Europe towards the Eaft Indies Page	1

Of Winds in High Latitudes	23

Of the SouthWeft Monſoon Page	31

Of Storms and great Calms in the North Part of the Bay of Bengal	37

Of the MONSOONS and CURRENTS near the Iſland CEYLON	43

Of the MONSOONS and CURRENTS near the COAST of COROMANDEL	48

Of the Weſtern Monfoon	55

Of Currents near the Coaft of Tanaffary	61

Directions for failing from the Arracan Shore along the Coaſt of Chittigong	256

Inftructions for Chittigong River	263

The Times of High Water at Full and Change between Balafore and Chittigong	267

Directions for Ships bound to the Malabar Coaſt from Acheen Head	290

Directions for failing from Bencoolen to the Southward	296

From Bencoolen to MocoMoco Indrapour Padang c	302

From Padang to AyerBongy Page	308

Inftructions for the Weft Coast of Sumatra coming from the Northward	314

Of the Ifland Mette	67

Of the COASTS of ARABIA and PERSIA	75

Of Cape Rofalgat	81

Of the Eaftern Coaſt of Arabia from Cape Rofalgat to Muſcat	87

Inftructions for failing between India and the Gulf of Perfia	95

Of the COAST of PERSIA	108

Of Peram Ifle and Gogo Page	111

Blowing Weather in Surat Roads with Directions for going over SuratBar	117

Of Anjanga Coiflan and Cochin	123

Of Manara Aripa and the Ifland Caridien	133

Of Matura River Dondrehead Gaelies Bay and Dickwell	139

Of the COAST from POINT PEDRA the North Point of CEYLON to	146

Of Trankabar Cabripatnam or Caweripatnam Triminivas River Coloran	148

Of Point Divy Maffulipatan and Narfapour	154

Of Pondy Barva Sommaveron Karapar and Manikpatnam	161

Directions for Rounding the Reef off Point Palmiras into Balafore Road	169

Of Callicut Tillicherry Mahe Mount Dilla and Cananore	175

Of Goa Road or Bay Alguarda Fort the Anchorage Tides and Soundings	181

Of the Dangers going into and out of Bombay Harbour with the Marks	190

DESCRIPTION of BOMBAY HARBOUR	203

The Maldivas and the Eight Degrees Channel Ile of Gama and Ouro Iſland	210

Of the Great Baffes the Elephant Little Baffes Chimney and Pagoda Hills	217

Of Vendelos Bay the Sugar Loaf Provedien Ifle Foul Point Trinkamalay	220

Marks for turning into Trinkamalay Harbour	226

Of Calderoon Karycal Trankabar and Porta Nova	232

Of the COASTS of ARRAKAN and	239

The beft Methods and Times for NAVIGATING SHIPS from PORT to PORT	322

From Bengal to the Coaſt of Coromandel c from Auguft to April	332

Directions for failing from the Coromandel Coaft to Mergui from the beginning	368

Directions for failing from the Coromandel Coaft to Mergui and JunkSeilon	374

Remarks on the Eaftern Paffage to China from India through the Straits	380

DIRECTIONS for going to the COAST of BRAZIL and for SAILING from	385

Captain Goughs Journal 3d of March 1732	394

Directions for going into Table Bay at the Cape of Good Hope	400

Directions for proceeding toward the Inner Paffage or between Madagaſcar	406

Directions for failing into St Auguftines Bay	412

Of St Chriftophers Ifle	418

Directions for Ships bound to Bombay Page	422

The Chagas Archipelago Diego Rays Iflands c	429

The Iſlands Adu and Candu Londons Bank c	436

Directions for Ships that go the Outward Paffage to India or for thoſe that	447

Directions for Ships bound to India or China early in the Seafon	453

Directions concerning a Sand to the Weftward of the Two Brothers on which	467

Directions for failing from the Straits of Banca to Pulo Timoan	473

Captain DAuvergnes Account of the Ship Scarborough ftriking on the South	480

Directions for failing through the Straits of Sunda to Bantam or Batavia in	482

Directions for failing to Malacca from the Weftward in the Wefterly Monſoons	491

Sailing from Poolo Penang to Acheen c	497

Of Elmore Channel Port of Rhio c	510

Directions for failing from Madras to Manilla through the Straits of Malacca	522

Extract from Captain ELMOREs Directions for failing from Madras through	541

Directions for failing from Pulo Timoan to Siam in the Weftern Monfoons	547

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Title	A New Nautical Directory for the East-India and China Navigation ...
Author	William Herbert
Editor	Gabriel Wright
Edition	7
Publisher	W. Gilbert, 1804
Original from	the New York Public Library
Digitized	16 Jun 2009
Length	623 pages

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