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 19, 2024.

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How these Lands doe shew themselves at Sea.

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Thus sheweth the land to the westwards of Portland, when you sayle alongst by it.
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The land betwixt Torbay and the Steart sheweth thus.
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The Steart Dartmouth Torbay.

Thus sheweth the land betwixt Torbay and the Steart, when the Steart is southwest and by west from you.

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The Steart Dartmouth Torbay.

Thus sheweth the land betwixt Torbay and the Steart, when the Steart is westsouthwest from you.

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Torbay Torbay Torbay Torbay

The poynt of Torbay sheweth thus in divers forms, according as you are southerly or northerly of from it.

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The Steart Dartmouth.

These two figures belong one to the other at the two crosses.

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Torbay Apsum

Thus sheweth Dartmouth, as it is pourtrayed in these two figures, when you are right thwart from it, a league or two from the land, with the land on both sides of it, as well towards the Steart as towards Torbay, and to the northwards of it.

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The Steart

Thus sheweth the Steart, being north from you 2 or 3 leagues.

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The Steart being north from you 7 leagues, sheweth thus.
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This open will be shut too when you sayle to the westwards. This open will be shut too when you sayle to the westwards. The Steart.

When the Steart is northeast from you, it appeareth in this forme, and then the poynt goeth flat downe.

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Salckom The Steart.

Thus sheweth the land to the westwards of the eastermost poynt of the Steart, towards Salckom, when you sayle alongst by it.

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De Custen Ʋan Engelant tusschen de twee pointen van Poortlandt en Lezard.

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Plymmouth n. n. w. The Steart n. n. w.

Thus sheweth the land of the Steart, and alongst to the westwards of Plymmouth, when the Steart is northnortheast about two leagues, and the sound of Plymmouth northnorth∣west five or six leagues from you.

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Mewstone The Steart

The Land betwixt the Steart and the sound of Plymmouth sheweth it selfe in this forme, when you sayle alongst by it.

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Thus sheweth the high Land to the eastwards of Plymmouth.
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Maker Church.

Thus sheweth the Land of Ramehead, and to the northwards of it, when you sayle into the sound of Plymmouth.

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The Dodman Ramehead.

When you are thwart of the Dodman 4 leagues without the Land, that, and the land to the east∣wards of it, unto Ramehead, sheweth it selfe in this manner.

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The Dodman when you are right before it.

Thus sheweth the Land to the eastwards of Falmouth, when you sayle alongst by it a league a seaboard the Land.

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Lizard Falmouth Dodman

Thus sheweth the land betweene the Dodman and the Lizard

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Lizard Hilford Falmouth.

The Land betwixt Falmouth and the Lizard sheweth thus when you are before Falmouth.

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Thus sheweth the Lizard when you sayle alongst by it.

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