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General Chart of the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, describing the Gulf and Windward Passages, Coasts of Florida, Louisiana and Mexico, Bay of Honduras and Mosquito Shore; Coast of the Spanish Main to the Mouth of the Orinoco. Drawn from the Surveys taken by Mr. Geo. Gaulo and others, the New Spanish Charts, &c. and adjusted for Recent Observations. J. Fodd Dessiou; Master of the Royal Navy. Approved by the Chart Committee of the Admiralty. London. Published by W. Faden, Geographer to His Majesty, and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Charing Cross June 4th 1808. Written and engraved by John Roper
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A General Chart of the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico
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Chart of the Antilles, or Charibbee, or, Caribs Islands, with the Virgin Isles, by L. S. de la Rochette MDCCLXXXIV. (1784) From the situation of the Caribs Islands, compared with that of the Westernmost Isles of the Mexican Gulf, They are named Windward Islands by the Spaniards, as well as by the French, the Dutch, and the Danes while the English, who consider the position of those Islands respectively to Barbadoies give them the name Leeward Islands, or Leeward Charibee Islands
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