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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To sayl clear of Alborough-Knapes.

East from Alborough, two leagues, lyeth Alborough-Knapes, which is a Sand that at low-water is not deeper than seven or eight foot; you may sound round about it in five fathom, but it is not good to come nearer with Sea-winds; you may discern it plainly by the breaking of the Sea; but with northerly and westerly winds, the Sea breaks not at all upon it, if it be fair weather: he that runneth by it to the northwards with an Ebb, shall see it ripple much upon it, likewise upon most of the English Banks; and indeed not upon the Banks, but a∣gainst them, for upon the shoalest of them is alwayes the smoothest water, as experience teacheth every where: When-as Alborough is West from you, and the two Steeples of Orfordness one in the other, there you shall find Alborough-Knapes. These are sure marks of that Sand.