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 15, 2024.
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The Nower and Buoy.
The Nower is a Sand that lyeth from part of the Isle of Grean, and runs down nearest East two little miles; on the East Point thereof lyeth a Buoy in twelve foot at low-water: this Sand is broader in some places than in other, by reason of some Swatches that are in it,
* 1.1 and dries every low-water: Minster-Church, in the Isle of Sheppy, bears South by East from the Buoy of the Nower, and Shyrness West, half southerly, about three miles: From the Buoy of the Nower to the Buoy of the Oaze-edge, the course is East, one quarter southerly, near five miles. This Sand and Buoy is marked in the Draught with the letter e.