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 Portland to S. Paul de Lion southwest and by south, 40 leagues.
From Portland to Ushant southwest 53 leagues.
From Portland to Exmouth westnorthwest. 13 leagues.
From Torbay to Dartmouth s. w. 3 a 4 leagues.
From Dartmouth to the Steart s. w. 3 leagues.
From Portland to Torbay west, somewhat southerly 13 or 14 leagues.
From Portland to Dartmouth west & by s. 16 leagues.
From Portland to the Steart westsouthwest westerly 19 leagues.
From the Steart to the Caskets eastsoutheast 21 leag.
From the Steart to the Sept Isles, south & by east some∣what easterly, 24 leagues.
From the Steart to S. Paul de Lion south and by west, somewhat southerly 27 leagues.
From the Steart to Ushant southwest and by south 38 leagues.
From the Steart to Ramehead, the course is westnorth∣west 8 leagues.
From Ramehead to the Island of Lowe westsouthwest, 3 leagues.
From the Isle of Low to Foy, west 2 leagues.
From Foy to the Dodman southwest & south w. and by w. 5 leagues.
From the Dodman to Falmouth west and by south, and westsouthwest 4 leagues.
From Falmouth to the Lizard south & by w. 4 leagues.
From the Steart to the Eddy-stone west or a little more northerly 7 or 8 leagues.
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From the Eddystone to Ramehead north a little wester∣ly 2. leagues.
From Ramehead to the Dodman w.s.w. 8 leagues.
From the Dodman to the Lizard southwest 6 leagues.
From the Steart to the Lizard west and by south 20. or 21 leagues.
From the Lizard to Garnsey east and by south 37 leag.
From the Lizard to the Sept Isles, or seven Islands, the course is southeast and by east 31 leagues.
From the Lizard to Ushant south 29 leagues.
From the Lizard to Cape de Finisterre southwest, 153 leagues.
And that course goeth about 5 leagues without the C.
From the Lizard to Teneriffe southsouthwest 466 lea∣gues.
From the Lizard to Tercera southwest and by west 386 leagues.
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