Sounding-line.
The differences betwixt the sounding line, and deep-see-line, are these: the sounding line is bigger then the deep-see-line: A sounding-line is commonly cut to twenty faddom, or little more, the other will be a hundred, or two hundred faddom, the one is used in showle, the other in deep-water; the deepe see-line, is first marked at twenty faddom, and so to thirty, forty, &c. but the sounding line is thus marked, at two faddom next to the lead, it is marked with a peece of black leather put into it, betwixt the strands, and at three faddom, the like at five, a peece of white woollen cloth, at seven faddom, a peece of red cloth, at ten, a peece of leather, at fifteen faddom, either a white cloth or a peece of leather, and so it is marked no farther; This may be used, when the ship is under-saile, but the deep-see-line cannot with any certainty.