The sea-mans dictionary, or, An exposition and demonstration of all the parts and things belonging to a shippe together with an explanation of all the termes and phrases used in the practique of navigation / composed by Henry Manwaring ...

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Title: The sea-mans dictionary, or, An exposition and demonstration of all the parts and things belonging to a shippe together with an explanation of all the termes and phrases used in the practique of navigation / composed by Henry Manwaring ...
Author: Manwayring, Henry, Sir, 1587-1653.
Publication: London :: Printed by G. M. for John Bellamy ...,; 1644.
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Channell.

By channell, is meant the deepest part of any River, or Harbours mouth; as when we say Steere in the channell, is meant the deepest part of the River; In places where there are loose sands, the channels doe alter much according to extraordinary winds, which come and drive the sands with the sea, sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other; As when I came into Mamora, the channell lay hast-south-hast, and west-north-west, but in two Moneths after, by reason of a fresh shot, it changed to lie in hast-north-hast, and west-south-west, which is five points of the Compasse; Sometimes we also call narrow seas, chan∣nels, as the English channell betwixt France and England, and Saint Georges channell, betwixt England and Ireland: but being in those Seas, if we say steere in the channell, it is meant in the middest of the sea.