What is especially appealing about the chart is Jefferys inclusion of ships to indicate the accessibility and the business of the area. The chart also makes a feature of the Bank of Aves stretching between Saba and Aves Islands. Kitts, Nevis, and Anguilla and are so called because away from the wind ("lee"). The Leeward Islands include the Virgin Islands, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Antigua, Barbuda, St. They're called the Windward Islands because they're exposed to the wind ("windward") of the northeast trade winds (north easterlies).
The Windward Islands include Martinique, St. The chart covers most of the Caribbean region eastward of Puerto Rico taking-in all of the lesser Antilles, also known as the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands down as far as Barbados. Jeffereys is careful to explain what the islands are called by other nations such as the France, Spain and the Netherlands, all of whom had considerable interests in the area at the time. Together with an historical account of the several countries and islands which compose that part of the world.' It was included by Jefferys in 'The West-India atlas or, a compendious description of the West-Indies: illustrated with forty one correct charts and maps, taken From actual surveys. The edition presented here is a later, 1794, issue of the chart. This handsome chart was first published in 1775 by Thomas Jeffreys, Geographer to the King.
Not a chart to navigate by, more a stylish representation of a sea chart for the arm-chair sailor who could afford the atlas. Map/Chart > The Caribbean The Caribbee or Leeward Islands, The Virgin Islands, and the Isle of Porto Rico.
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