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 Colborn.

The Colborn is a Shoal that lyeth to the northwards of White-dike, and a little to the southwards of Broad∣stairs-Peer, (which sometimes ebbs dry) it lies a large half mile off the Shore, and there is nine foot water between it and the shore. The Mark for a small Ship to avoid it, Is to keep the top of St. Peters-steeple open over the Land. This Shoal is noted in the Draught with the Letter u.

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