The lighting colomne or sea-mirrour containing the sea-coasts of the northern, eastern and western navigation: setting forth in divers necessarie sea-cards all the ports, rivers, bayes, roads, depths and sands ... With the discoveries of the chief countries, and on what cours and distance they lay one from another ... As also the situation of the northernly countries, as islands, the strate Davids, the isle of Ian-Mayen, Bear-Island, Old-Greenland, Spitsbergen and Nova Zembla ... Gathered out of the experience and practice of divers pilots and lovers of the famous art of navigation. By Jan van Loon. Whereunto is added a brief instruction of the art of navigation, together vvith nevv tables of the suns declination, also an almanack extending untill the yeare 1661.

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The lighting colomne or sea-mirrour containing the sea-coasts of the northern, eastern and western navigation: setting forth in divers necessarie sea-cards all the ports, rivers, bayes, roads, depths and sands ... With the discoveries of the chief countries, and on what cours and distance they lay one from another ... As also the situation of the northernly countries, as islands, the strate Davids, the isle of Ian-Mayen, Bear-Island, Old-Greenland, Spitsbergen and Nova Zembla ... Gathered out of the experience and practice of divers pilots and lovers of the famous art of navigation. By Jan van Loon. Whereunto is added a brief instruction of the art of navigation, together vvith nevv tables of the suns declination, also an almanack extending untill the yeare 1661.
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Colom, Jacob Aertsz, 1599-1673.
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At Amsterdam :: printed by John Johnson bookseller, dwelling upon the Water, in the Passe-card,
1654.
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"The lighting colomne or sea-mirrour containing the sea-coasts of the northern, eastern and western navigation: setting forth in divers necessarie sea-cards all the ports, rivers, bayes, roads, depths and sands ... With the discoveries of the chief countries, and on what cours and distance they lay one from another ... As also the situation of the northernly countries, as islands, the strate Davids, the isle of Ian-Mayen, Bear-Island, Old-Greenland, Spitsbergen and Nova Zembla ... Gathered out of the experience and practice of divers pilots and lovers of the famous art of navigation. By Jan van Loon. Whereunto is added a brief instruction of the art of navigation, together vvith nevv tables of the suns declination, also an almanack extending untill the yeare 1661." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A80180.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.

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How these Lands doe shew themselves at sea.

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Casa Cavalgero.

Thus sheweth the land betwixt Masagam and C. Cantin.

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Thus sheweth it selfe Casa Cavalgero, when it is south from you 6 leagues.
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When the northerne Corner of Saffia is southsoutheast from you 4 leagues it sheweth in this forme.
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When C. Cantin is northeast and by east 6 leagues, and the poynt of Saffia eastsoutheast foure leagues from you, then they shew themselves thus.
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Thus sheweth the land to the southwards of the south poynt of the Bay of Saffia, when it is east∣southeast 3 leagues from you.
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Mogodor.

When you are westnorthwest or thwart off from Mogodor, 3 leagues, then sheweth it selfe thus. It is a high and double land.

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C. Taffelana.

When the Cape de Taffelana is northnortheast 3 leagues from you, the land sheweth thus unto Cape de Geer.

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C. de Geer.

When the C. de Geer is northnorthwest 3 leagues from you, it sheweth thus, and when the Bay is east and by south from you, the land is with sand-hils.

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Thus sheweth the Island Saint Michaels on the north side.
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Thus sheweth the Island of Tercera, when it lyeth e. and by s. about 7 leagues from you.

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When Tercera is 4 or 5 leagues from you, then it ariseth thus, the west end of this Island Tercera is higher then the east end, thereby it is indifferent easy to be knowne.
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Thus sheweth Tercera on the north side.
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Brefil Road before Angera Little Islands.

Thus sheweth the Tercera on the south side when you sayle alongst by it.

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Thus sheweth the Island S. George when it lyeth southsouthwest 7 leagues.
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When the west end of S. Georges is south and by east and the east end southeast from you, it sheweth it selfe thus, being eight or nine leagues of from you.
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When the Island Pico is southeast from you, it sheweth it selfe thus, the high Pieck you may see about 40 leagues of from it at sea.
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The Island Fayal sheweth it selfe thus when it is south from you 8 or 9 leagues.
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When the Island Gratios a lyeth westsouthwest 4 leagues from you, then it ariseth in this forme.

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Caarte Ʋoor een gedeelte der Ca∣narise Eylanden als Cana∣ria, Tenerifa, Forteventura, etc.

De tyhavens Porto de Naos en Porto de Cavallos aen de Zuyd∣oostzyde van Lacerota

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