A geographical descripion of the coasts, harbours, and sea ports of the Spanish West-Indies; particularly of Porto Bello, Cartagena, and the island of Cuba. With observations of the currents, and the variations of the compass in the Bay of Mexico, and the North Sea of America. Translated from a curious and authentic manuscript, written in Spanish by Domingo Gonzalez Carranza, his Catholick Majesty's principal pilot of the Flota in New Spain, Anno 1718. To which is added, an appendix containing Capt. Parker's own account of his taking the town of Porto Bello, in the year 1601. With an index, and a new and correct chart of the whole; as also plans of the Havannah, Porto Bello, Cartagena, and La Vera Cruz.
By: Gonzalez Carranza, Domingo
.Publisher: London : Printed for the Editor Caleb Smith; and sold by Mess. Strahan, Meadows, Brotherton, Clarke, [and 8 others in London], 1740Description: 136, [8]p. ; 8.°.Subject(s): West Indies -- Description and travel
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