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.

Title

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.

Publication

London :: [J. Seller?,

1671?]

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Nautical charts -- England

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Contents

• title page
• A DESCRIPTION OF THE Sands, Shoals, Rocks, and Dangers; The Bayes, Roads, Harbours, Rivers, Ports, Buoys, Beacons, and Sea-Marks, &c. upon the Coasts of England, from the South-Foreland to Flambrough-head. Shewing the Courses and Distances from one Place to another: The Set∣ting of the Tydes and Currents: The Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea. With Directions for the bringing a Ship into any Harbour on the said Coasts. Being furnished with New and Exact Draughts, Charts, and Descripti∣ons of every Harbour; gathered from the Experience and Practice of divers Able and Expert Navigators of our English Nation.
  • A short Description of the River of Thames, from London-Bridge to the Point of the Hope: Shewing the Shelves and Dangers in each Reach.
    • The Pool,
    • Limehouse-Reach.
    • Greenwich-Reach.
    • Blackwall-Reach.
    • Nel-Hope, (alias) Bugby's-Hole.
    • Woolwich-Reach.
    • Gallions-Reach.
    • Barking-shelf-Reach.
    • Half-way-Tree Reach.
    • Erith-Reach.
    • The Rands,
    • Long-Reach.
    • St. Clements-Reach.
    • North-fleet-Hope.
    • Gravesend-Reach.
    • Lilbury-Hope.
  • A Description of the Sands, Shoals, Buoys, Beacons, and Sea-Marks on the Coast of England, from Thames-Mouth to Flambrough-head.
    • Blyth-Sand.
    • Hole-Haven-Scarrs.
    • The Chapman.
    • Middle-Ground.
    • The Nower and Buoy.
    • The Cant.
    • Shooberry-Ness.
    • Black-Tayl.
    • The Warp.
    • The Shooe and Beacon.
    • Middle-Ground and Buoy.
    • The Middle-Middle-Ground.
    • The Whitaker and Beacon.
    • The Burey and Buoy.
    • The Gunfleet and Buoy.
    • The Heaps.
    • The Andrews.
    • The Altar.
    • The Ridge.
    • The Rowling-Grounds.
    • The Platters.
    • West-Rocks.
    • The Cork.
    • The Cutler.
    • The Middle-Ground.
    • The Onion.
    • The Sledway.
    • The Whiting.
    • Bawdsey-Sand.
    • The Shipwash.
    • Alborough-Knapes.
    • Bernard.
    • The Sea-Horse, or Newcome.
    • St. Matthews-Sand.
    • The Holms of Yarmouth.
    • Scroby.
    • New-warp.
    • The Overfalls.
    • Bounses.
    • Haseborough-Sand.
    • The Lemon.
    • The Orrey.
    • Blackney-Sand.
    • Pole and Piper.
    • Burnham Flats.
    • Pearls-Hole.
    • New-Bank.
  • The Sands and Shoals in Lin-Deeps.
    • The Sonk.
    • Dousings.
    • Inner Dousings.
    • Dogs-head.
    • Boston-Knock,
    • Long-Sand.
  • A Description of the Sands, within the HUMBER.
    • Rose.
    • Riff.
    • Bull.
    • Stone-Banks.
    • Borcom.
    • Sonk in the Humber.
    • Holms.
  • The Banks that lie off in the Sea.
    • The Dogger-Bank.
    • Crouch-Bank.
    • The White-Bank.
    • The White-Water.
    • The Well-Bank.
  • A Description of the Sands, Shoals, Buoys, Beacons, and Sea-Marks up∣on the Coast of England, from the Buoy of the Nower to Dover.
    • The Flats.
    • The Gilman.
    • The Spaniard.
    • The Red-sand and Buoy.
    • The Oaze-edge and Buoy.
    • The Spile.
    • The Buoy of the Woolpack.
    • The Buoy of the Spell.
    • The Hook.
    • Middle-ground at the Cliff-end.
    • The Horse.
    • The Buoy of the Searn.
    • The Wedge.
    • Marget-Sand.
    • The Colborn.
    • The White-Dike.
    • The Querns.
    • The Brake.
    • The Goodwin.
    • The Fatts.
    • The Galloper.
    • The Gabard.
    • Kentish-Knock.
    • Pan-Sands.
    • The Girdler.
    • The Long-Sand.
    • The Shivering-Sand.
    • Knock-John.
    • The Sunk.
    • East-Barrows.
    • West-Barrows.
    • The Mouse.
  • Directions for Sayling into all the Harbours on the East Coast of England, from the Downs to Flambrough-Head; Shewing the Marks for bring∣ing a Ship to an Anchor in any of the Roads and Harbours on the said Coast: The Depth and Soundings amongst the Sands.
    • Directions for the Mouth of the River.
    • Directions for sayling from Tilbury-Hope down to the Buoy of the Nower.
    • Directions to sayl from the Nower to the northward through the Swin.
    • Other directions for the Swin, and so through the Kings-Channel to∣wards the Downs.
    • To sayl unto Cowen and Malden-Water.
    • Directions to sayl into Harwich coming from the southwards.
    • Other Directions for Harwich coming from the Northwards.
    • Other directions to sayl into Harwich.
    • To sayl out of Harwich.
    • To know Bawdsey, Oasly, and Al∣terton-Churches.
    • To sayl out of the Sledway to the North-Foreland.
    • To sayl out at the back-side of the Gunfleet.
    • To sayl by the Naze to the Northwards.
    • To sayl clear of Alborough-Knapes.
    • To sayl to the westward of the Whiting-Sand.
    • To run in to the Eastward of the Whiting.
    • Directions from the Buoy of the Buxey down to the Kings-Channel, and from thence to the Northwards.
    • From the Sonk to the Long-Sand, and so to the North-Foreland.
    • To sayl alongst the Coast by Albo∣rough, Dunwich, and Covehith.
    • To sayl within the Banks of Yarmouth.
    • To sayl into Yarmouth-Road through the Holms.
    • To sayl from Yarmouth through the Sands.
    • To sayl by Wintertonness.
    • To sayl from Orfordness to Leystaff through the Stamford.
    • To sayl through Yarmouth-Roads to the Northwards.
    • Directions for St. Nicholas-Gat and Yarmouth-Road.
    • Marks of the Channel are as follows.
    • Yarmouth-Road.
    • Directions for sayling from the Buoy of the Nower over the Flats, and through the Narrow into the Downs.
    • The Mark to Ride in Marget-Road.
    • The Gore.
    • Westgate-Bay.
    • Directions to sayl from Margaret-Road to the North-Foreland, and the Marks for both Channels in the Downs.
    • To sayl through the Gulls.
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