The American Coast Pilot; Containing the Courses and Directions Between the Principal Harbours, Capes, and Headlands on the Coast of North and South ... the Soundings, Bearings of the Light-Houses - Softcover

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Excerpt from The American Coast Pilot; Containing the Courses and Directions Between the Principal Harbours, Capes, and Headlands on the Coast of North and South America: With Directions for Sailing Into the Same; Describing the Soundings, Bearings of the Light-Houses and Beacons From the Rocks, Shoals, Ledges, &C., With the Prevailing Winds, Settings of the Currents, &C. And the Latitudes and Longitudes of the Principal H

Impressed with these considerations, and sensible of the growing importance of this trade, the author of the American Coast Pilot, about thirty years since, undertook to acquire and publish informa tion concerning the navigation of this country. At that time the American sailor had to contend with the difficulties and dangers in eident to his profession, unassisted by those aids, which have lately made his task comparatively easy. No charts or sailing directions for the coast were published in the United States, and, as might have been expected, those published in England, being derived from par tial information, were full of errors.

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