A new directory for the East-Indies:   containing, I. The first discoveries made in the East-Indies by European voyagers and Travellers. II. The Origin Construction, and Application Nautical and Hydrographical Charts. III. The natural Causes, and observed Phaenomena, of the constant and variable Winds, Trade-Winds, Monsoons, and Currents, throughout the East-India Oceans and Seas. IV. A Description of the Sea Coasts, Islands, Rocks, Harbours, Shoals, Sands, Sea-Marks, Soundings, &c. in the Oriental Navigation. V. Directions for navigating in the East-India Seas, to the best Advantage, at different Times of the Year. VI. Directions for sailing to and from the East-Indies, as recommended and practised by experienced Navigators and Mariners. The whole being a work originally begun upon the plan of the oriental Neptune, augmented and improved by Mr. Will. Herbert, Mr. Will. Nichelson, and others; and now methodised, corrected, and further enlarged, by Samuel Dunn, Teacher of the Mathematical Sciences, London. Sixth edition. To which is added an appendix.
Herbert, William,1718-1795.
Dunn, Samuel,-1794.
London : printed for Messrs. Gilbert and Wright,
1791.
Earlier editions bear the author statement: "By William Herbert"; apparently based on Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d'Après de Mannevillette's 'Le Neptune oriental', first published in Paris in 1745.
Reproduction of original from the Harvard University Libraries.
Text continuous despite pagination.
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