The lighting colomne or sea-mirrour containing the sea-coasts of the northern, eastern and western navigation: setting forth in divers necessarie sea-cards all the ports, rivers, bayes, roads, depths and sands ... With the discoveries of the chief countries, and on what cours and distance they lay one from another ... As also the situation of the northernly countries, as islands, the strate Davids, the isle of Ian-Mayen, Bear-Island, Old-Greenland, Spitsbergen and Nova Zembla ... Gathered out of the experience and practice of divers pilots and lovers of the famous art of navigation. By Jan van Loon. Whereunto is added a brief instruction of the art of navigation, together vvith nevv tables of the suns declination, also an almanack extending untill the yeare 1661.
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The lighting colomne or sea-mirrour containing the sea-coasts of the northern, eastern and western navigation: setting forth in divers necessarie sea-cards all the ports, rivers, bayes, roads, depths and sands ... With the discoveries of the chief countries, and on what cours and distance they lay one from another ... As also the situation of the northernly countries, as islands, the strate Davids, the isle of Ian-Mayen, Bear-Island, Old-Greenland, Spitsbergen and Nova Zembla ... Gathered out of the experience and practice of divers pilots and lovers of the famous art of navigation. By Jan van Loon. Whereunto is added a brief instruction of the art of navigation, together vvith nevv tables of the suns declination, also an almanack extending untill the yeare 1661.
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Colom, Jacob Aertsz, 1599-1673.
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At Amsterdam :: printed by John Johnson bookseller, dwelling upon the Water, in the Passe-card,
1654.
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"The lighting colomne or sea-mirrour containing the sea-coasts of the northern, eastern and western navigation: setting forth in divers necessarie sea-cards all the ports, rivers, bayes, roads, depths and sands ... With the discoveries of the chief countries, and on what cours and distance they lay one from another ... As also the situation of the northernly countries, as islands, the strate Davids, the isle of Ian-Mayen, Bear-Island, Old-Greenland, Spitsbergen and Nova Zembla ... Gathered out of the experience and practice of divers pilots and lovers of the famous art of navigation. By Jan van Loon. Whereunto is added a brief instruction of the art of navigation, together vvith nevv tables of the suns declination, also an almanack extending untill the yeare 1661." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A80180.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2024.
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Courses & Distances.
From Beachy to the Owers w. and by s. 13 leagues.
From thwart of the Owers in 12 fathom unto Dunnose the south poynt of Wight w.s.w. 5 leagues.
From Beachy to Blacknesse east 18 leagues.
From Beachy to Struysaert south 26 leagues.
From Beachy to the Caskets s.w. & by w. 36 leagues.
From Dunnose to the southermost poynt of Wight, un∣to the Needles of Wight, west and by north and w. n. w. 4 leagues.
From the west end, or the Needles of Wight, to the poynt of S. Albons land west 4 leagues,
From the Needles of Wight to Portland west and by south and west southwest 11 leagues.
From Wight to Diep e. s. e. 36 leagues.
From the east end of Wight to Struysaert s. east, some∣what southerly 29 leagues.
From Wight to the Caskets, southwest and by south, 20 leagues.
From Portland to Seynhead southeast and by east, 39 leagues.
From Portland to the Caskets south and by east. 13 ½. lea.
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