A directory for the North Atlantic Ocean, comprising instructions, general and particular, for its navigation - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...it by making a long stretch to the Northward; when, after fourteen days, they made the coast nearly at the same place; with those of others who effected it completely in only three or four days, in the space mentioned. I know many reports of this sort, but they want sufficient authenticity to be relied on. As a general remark, it may be kept in mind that to get soundings ought to be the principal object of ships bound to this coast, as, with the present knowledge of depths hereabout, together with an observed latitude, it may show them their place of situation East or West of the intended place very near the truth, because the general tendency of the mud-bank is nearly N.W. and S.E.; and thus, to the Eastward of a certain meridian, there will be found more water than to the Wostward, upon the same parallel. It is absolutely erroneous to state that the limit of soundings is marked by the change in the colour of the water; as more than once, and particularly in November, 1834, in 25 fathoms of water, to the N.E. of Marowyne River, the colour was perfectly blue and transparent, and at other times tinged of an ashy hue by the mud. Some remarks on making the coast about Colon are given previously, on pages 364--365. Steam Navigation Between Tobago And Demeraha. This and the following two sections are chiefly taken from an illustrated work, which gives numerous directions for the West Indies:--Between Tobago and Trinidad the current sets along towards the W.N.W. and W.S.W., nearly always at the rate of 2 knots per hour, and not unfrequently 3 or 4 knots. After clearing the channel, the stream will generally be found running nearly parallel with the line of coast the whole distance to Demerara, though it sometimes takes a more Northerly direction, particularly in ...