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Piloting Directions for the Rio de La Plata, Or River Plate John William Norie No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
18 fathoms 24 fathoms anchor anchorage Atalaya bearing N. E. blow bound to Buenos Buenos Ayres buoy Cape Frio Cape St Cathedral channel Chico Bank clear Coast of South compass course depth of water distance dollars East eastward Embudo Trees English Bank Ensenada entrance fathoms water feet water Fisher's Bank Flores Gulf of California Gulf of Nicoya harbour Health Visit Island of Farallon Island of Lobos Jago keep Laguna Blanca land latitude 34 leagues Lobos Island longitude Main-mast Maldonado Mary miles Montevideo Mount bearing Navigation northerly northward Ortiz Bank outer roads pampero Panela passing Pavon pilot Plata Point del Indio Point Lara Point of Goritti Point Santa Maria Point St Rio Janeiro River Plate road of Buenos S. E. end sand sandy shoal shore soundings South America southward Steam Vessels Steeples of Colonia steer tides Truxillo Van Diemen's Land Video weather West westward
Popular passages
Page 8 - S. by compass, with 4J or 5 fathoms, good strong clay. With southerly winds there is, in the east passage, a heavy swell; and the water, from the ground being uneven, breaks almost the whole way across in bad weather. The Diomede...
Page 6 - ... whence the bank of soundings takes a SW direction. East of Lobos, 27 leagues, the depth is 25 fathoms; and in steering in, on its parallel, the same depth nearly continues till very near that island. But, if set a little to the southward of Lobos, the water will...
Page 7 - ... with from 15 to 20 fathoms, sand and clay mixed, you are not far off the land. When you have not seen the land before night, be sure to keep to the northward of the Cape by your reckoning, to allow for the current, which sets to the southward. This is the case with the above-mentioned North and NE winds. With South and SW winds the current runs strongly the other way.
Page 6 - S. the bottom is chiefly mud, intermixed with fine sand or gravel ; and if a ship happen to be set to the southward of Cape St. Mary, as she hauls in for the land, yet keeps to the northward of Lobos, she will get out of fine sand into dark...
Page 8 - The Spanish surveys of this bay lay down a sufficient depth •of water for any ship between every part of the island and the main ; however, it cannot be safely entered, but by small vessels, except to the westward ; and you must not go farther in than to bring the NW Point of Goritti to bear SSW J W.
Page 8 - Between these the land is low and marshy ; and overflowed sometimes between the central and NE hummock. It may be seen at the distance of 5 or 6 leagues from a ship's deck in clear weather.* There is good anchorage all round this island : but a reef extends in a NW direction from the North point about a mile. Seals and sea-lions, and various aquatic birds, resort to this small island, as well as to Lobos : and, in the months of August and September, great quantities of very excellent eggs may be...