Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... Upon the island, on the starboard side, is a large fishing-house, built of logs, with the gable end towards the water. When you have reached the centre of the channel, so that the spar buoys are upon either beam, steer S.W. W. for the centre of the three hills, and the town of Cardenas will soon open on your port bow; and when it bears S.W. by S., haul up for it, and come to in from 9 to 11 feet water. "Pilots can always be obtained in pleasant weather, by making the proper signals. In heavy weather, however, they are unable to board you, their light skiffs being utterly unfit for a heavy sea. If you make the harbour in heavy weather, you will have to take your vessel in without a pilot. The channel is an intricate one, abounding in shoals and reefs, which put out from the numerous islets that fill the harbour; but by observing the above directions, vessels of 10 feet draught, and under, will be brought in safety." CURRENTS ON THE NORTH-WEST PART OF CUBA.--The great body of water which sets to the south-eastward from the Gulf of Mexico, diverges to the eastward and westward, on approaching the N.W. coast of Cuba; from Bahia Honda, westward, it runs to leeward; but from thence, eastward, it runs to the eastward. This has been experienced by several navigators. Mr. Romans, in treating of it, says, "I have always observed, that a lee current does not extend eastward of Bahia Honda; at least I have found it so during five or six times that I have met the current setting westward; but at those times, and in eight or ten other passages along this coast, I have always found a strong windward current east of that place; so that if I once weathered it, I was seldom more than 12 hours in getting up to Point de Guanos, being the west point of the...
