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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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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Subject terms: Nautical charts -- England
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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.