Sailing Directions For The West Coast Of North America PDF Download

Excerpt from Sailing Directions for the West Coast of North America: The Coasts of Central America, California, Oregon, Fuca, Strait, Puget Sound, Vancouver Island, and the Islands and Rocks Off the Coasts of Central America and California The rapid development of the resources of California and Oregon, and the increase of commerce with the countries on the sea-board of Central America, have had the effect of raising into importance many ports which, but a few years since, afforded only an occasional shelter to whalers. Hitherto, there has been but little call for a work of this nature, but as the countries of Western America are daily becoming of more commercial value, and the ports are visited less as harbours of occasional shelter than as places of trade, a work affording some information to the seaman, however scanty, of the ports he is about to visit, has become necessary. In the compilation of this work considerable difficulty has been experienced, from the want of information that could be considered authentic and trustworthy, no complete survey having yet been made of the West Coast of North America, although detached portions of it have been from time to time examined by the various expeditions sent out for that purpose by the governments of Great Britain, the United States, France, and Spain. From the works resulting from these examinations we have obtained much information, although it cannot in every case be considered so satisfactory as we might wish, still, through their means, we have, to some extent, become acquainted with many parts of which we were previously in entire ignorance; we have also embodied much private information with the object of making the work as complete and serviceable as possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.