A description of the sands, shoals, buoyes, beacons, roads, channels, and sea marks on the coast of England: from the southforeland to Flamborough head, being furnished with new & exact droughts of the sands, acording to the said descriptions / by John Seller, hydrographer to the Kings most excellent Majestie, and are to be sold by him at the Hermitage staires in Wapping.
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A description of the sands, shoals, buoyes, beacons, roads, channels, and sea marks on the coast of England: from the southforeland to Flamborough head, being furnished with new & exact droughts of the sands, acording to the said descriptions / by John Seller, hydrographer to the Kings most excellent Majestie, and are to be sold by him at the Hermitage staires in Wapping.
Author
Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698.
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London :: [J. Seller?,
1671?]
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Nautical charts -- England
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"A description of the sands, shoals, buoyes, beacons, roads, channels, and sea marks on the coast of England: from the southforeland to Flamborough head, being furnished with new & exact droughts of the sands, acording to the said descriptions / by John Seller, hydrographer to the Kings most excellent Majestie, and are to be sold by him at the Hermitage staires in Wapping." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A92889.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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The Heaps.
The Heaps are several Banks of Sand, as it were,
joyning to the North-east end of the Middle-Ground, E.N.E. and W.S.W. on which, at low-water, is but seven foot, and very steep too, and runs down about three miles; the North-east end thereof doth bear from the Naze South by East, half easterly: The Channel betwixt them and the Gunfleet, is four miles broad; in turning up or down, come no nearer them then ten fa∣thom. Some of these Heaps do dry on Spring-Tydes. These are noted in the Draught with the letter b.