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.

The Querns.

The Querns is a small shoal that lyeth W.N.W. from the Brake; * 1.1 between them both is a Channel for good Ships at high-water; it is a mile broad, only at the South end there lies a small Middle-ground near to the Brake, on which there is but seven foot at low-water.

The longst Mark for this Middle-ground, * 1.2 Is to bring St. Margets-Church (near the South-Fereland) a Ships length open to the southwards of Deal-Castle.

The thwart Mark, * 1.3 Is to bring Winsborough-steeple a Ships length open to the northwards of Sandwich-stee∣ple, then are you to the northward of this Middle-ground.

The leading Mark through this Channel, * 1.4 Is to bring St. Margets-Church in the middle, between Wamor and Deal-Castle, (the Middle-ground excepted) for when you come near that, you must keep the Church as a∣foresaid: Or you may turn the Church from the middle

between Deal and Wamor-Castle. If you bring the Church more than half over towards Wamor-Castle, you will be near the Brake, if not on it.

The Mark for the North-end of the Querns, Is to bring St. Lawrence-steeple a Ships length to the South∣ward of the Cliff.

For the South-end, Bring the Mill near Ramsgate, to the northward of Ramsgate-Peer.

Depths in this Channel, at low-water, are two and a half, three and a half, and four fathom; the nearer the Brake the deeper. This Sand is noted in the Draught with the letter s.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The Inner Channel.
• * 1.2

  Longst Mark.
• * 1.3

  Thwart Mark.
• * 1.4

  Leading Mark.