Cook, E.
VIAF ID: 44216749 ( Personal )
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- 100 1 0 ‡a Cook, E.
- 100 1 _ ‡a Cook, E.
4xx's: Alternate Name Forms (2)
Works
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A description of the Windward Passage and Gulf of Florida, with the course of the British trading-ships to and from the island of Jamaica : also an account of the trade-winds and of the variable winds and currents on the coasts thereabouts at different seasons of the year : illustrated with a chart of the coast of Florida and of the islands of Bahama, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the adjacent smaller islands, shoals, rocks, and other remarkable things in the course of the navigation in the West-Indies, whereby is demonstrated the precariousness of those voyages to the West-India merchants and the impossibility of their homeward-bound ships keeping clear of the Spanish Guarda Costa's, the whole very necessary for the information of such as never were in those parts of the world : to which are added, some proposals for the better securing of the British trade and navigation to and from the West-Indies ... : to which is now annexed, a very remarkable letter, containing a succinct account of the galleons, flota, flotilla, and register-ships : as also of the ports of Havana, Porto Bello, Carthagena, Vera Cruz, Buenos-Ayres, and the coasts of the Caracca's : interspers'd with various curious remarks on the commerce of the Spaniards in America. | |
The history of the abdication of Victor Amedeus II, late King of Sardinia, 1732: |