The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14: America, Part IIIHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14: America, Part III
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
From the Laguna to the riuer called Rio de Martin de Sousa are 42
leagues. And the coast is something high, and lieth Northeast and by
North, and Southwest and by South: and it hath an Island 2 leagues into
the sea, where ships may ride well. And from the Riuer of Martin de
Sousa to Rio de San Pedro are 52 leagues, and the coast lieth Northeast
and Southwest.
From this riuer of San Pedro there lieth a point of sand a good league
off and more, and it lyeth on the Southwest side of the port. And from
thence to Cabo de Santa Maria are 42 leagues: and the coast lieth
Northeast and Southwest, and all is lowe land.
Also on the Southeast side of Cabo de Santa Maria there lyeth an Isle
two leagues off into the sea, and it hath a good harborough betwixt it
and the mayne. And note that the mayne is lowe land.
The cape of Santa Maria standeth in 35 degrees, and at the point thereof
it hath an Island a league into the sea.
Hereafter followeth a Ruttier from the sayd riuer of Plate to the
Streight of Magelane.
The cape of Santa Maria is in 35 degrees. From thence to the Cape de
Santo Antonio, which is on the other side of the riuer, are 30 leagues
Northnortheast, and Southsouthwest. And this is the broadest place of
the riuer. And this cape is in 36 degrees and a halfe, and it is a
blacke grosse land. And thou must marke that 25 leagues a seaboord the
mouth of the riuer there lie certaine sands, which he called Baixos de
los Castellanos.
He that falleth with the Cape of Santa Maria must take good heede to go
Southeast vntill he be in 36 degrees, and from thence Southsoutheast
vntill 36 degrees and a halfe, giuing the sayd sholds de los Castellanos
a breadth: and also taking heede of the flats of the cape. And when he
findeth 40 or 45 fadomes, and russet sand, then he must goe Southwest
and by South, vntill he be in 40 degrees: where hee shall finde great
store of weeds, which come from the coast, and a man may goe 20 leagues
from the shore in this sounding.
[Sidenote: Cabo de Arenas Gordas.] From the Cape de Santo Antonio to the
cape de Arenas Gordas are eight and forty leagues, and the coast lieth
Northeast and Southwest, and by East and by West: [Sidenote: Rio de S.
Anna.] and in the first eighteene leagues is the riuer called Rio de
Santa Anna, which hath at the entrance certaine flats and sholds, giue
them a good breadth, and come not nigh them by much, but keepe thy selfe
in forty fadomes to goe surely.
[Sidenote: Cape de S. André.] From the cape de Arenas Gordas to the cape
of Sant André are one and thirty leagues: it lieth Northeast and by
East, and Southwest by West: I meane when thou art in the middest with
an equall distance from them both. And between both the capes are many
bayes and riuers, but all full of sandie sholdes.
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