Hou these Lands doe shew themselves at sea.
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The land a little to the eastwards of Kinsale sheweth thus.
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The land to the eastwards of Corck towards Jochull, sheweth in this forme.
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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Old ruined houses
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The Rocks betwixt Iochul and Corck.
When you are to the eastwards of Corck, not far from the land, and that the harbours mouth doth begin to open, then sheweth the land as it is described in these two figures, at the AA, belonging one to the other, being neare the land it seemeth to be high land, but a far off (when you can see the high inner land, within Iochul over the cliffe land) it seemeth to be but low.
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Innerland, far within the Land Innerland north and by west.
Mount of Iochul.
These two figures belong at the BB, one to the other
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Dongarvan
When you are before Iochull, or thereabouts, (two or three leagues from land) so that the high mountain•• of cape Quin be north and by west from you, then sheweth the land thus, the double innerland is very high blew land, you may see it in cleare weather twelve or thirteene leagues off.
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Corck Rock Iochull
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The high land of Dongarvan
These two figures belong at the CC one to the other, and is the forme of the land betwixt Corck and Iochull.
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Northnorthwest
The high land of Dongarvan sheweth thus, being northnorthwest from you.
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Thus sheweth the high land of Dongarvan, when the westermost end of it is northwest from you.
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Sleges Cataquin The haven of Waterfor••.
The Tower of W••••erford.
Thus sheweth it selfe the land about Waterford, and to the westwards, with the high land of C. Quin, or Cara Quin, when you come towards the land.
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Thus sheweth the Saltees, when they are 3 or 4 leagues west and by north from you.
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Grenore.
Thus sheweth the land between the Saltees and the poynt of Grenoort when it is about 2 leagues from you.
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Grenore
The figure following is to bejoyned unto the former, the AA one to the other.
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The land to the northwards of Greenoore sheweth thus, when the northermost poynt, where the crosse standeth over, is north and by west about five leagues from you, and Grenoore southwest & by west, so farre that a man may but even see it from below, and then a man may see the Tuskar from the top in the southwest.
Sugarloafe. Brahead.
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Thus sheweth the coast of Ireland when as Sugarloafe is northwest, and the poynt of Brahead northwest and by north about seven leagues from you. When as Sugarloafe commeth northwest and by west from you, then may you runne so in, over the north grounds through a broad channell of nine and ten fathom deepe.
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When the Sugarloafe is thwart from you, it sheweth with the high land within it, thus.
Sugarloafe Braehead Island Dalke.
Sound of Dalke.
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Thus sheweth the coast of Ireland betwixt the Sugarloafe and the Island Dalke, lying at the south poynt of the Bay of Dublin, when a man is about Braehead, one or two leagues from the land.
Sound poynt of Dublin. Island Dalke. The poynt Houth. Island Lambey.
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When a man commeth from the southwards, thus sheweth the Bay of Dublin with the poynt Houth, and the Island Lambey to the northwards of it