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.
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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 June 18, 2024.
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The Cutler.
The Cutler is a shoal that lyeth off from the N. E. of Bawdsey-Cliff a small mile, on which is but six foot at low-water: This Sand lies badly, if men be not care∣ful of it, because the Tyde of Flood or Ebb sets so right upon it, that if a Ship cometh aground, it is bad get∣ting off, the Tyde binding so directly upon it; you may come in four fathom of it; in the Fair-way is 5 and 6 fathom: it is almost round, and very hard ground. The Longst mark to keep clear of it,
* 1.1 is to bring Har∣wich-Steeple a Sayles breadth open of Felsteed-Cliff. The Thwart Mark for it, * 1.2 is Bawdsey-steeple on the North end of a thick Wood by the Water side; then the Stee∣ple bears off you North-west, five degrees West. This Sand is noted in the Draught with the letter n.