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The English pilot. : The fourth book. Describing the West India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones. ... The whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations
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Chart of the North Part of America, describing the Sea Coast of Groenland, Davies Streights, Baffins Bay, Hudsons Bay, Buttons Bay, and James Bay, by John Seller, Hydrographer to the King at the Hermitage in Wapping London
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Chart of the North Part of America, For Hudson's Bay commonly called NorthWest Passage
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