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 15, 2024.
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To sayl from Yarmouth through the Sands.
If you sayl from Yarmouth through within to the northwards, sayl alongst by the Land, and keep the sounding of the shore in 5, 6, or 7 fathom, until you have the two Light-houses (which stand a little to the northwards of Castor) one in the other,
* 1.1 and then sayl in right with them, either by day or night, (in the night there is fire in them) and then shall you run over a Flat without the Buoy, which lyeth upon the Tayl of the Sand called the Barber;* 1.2 sayl boldly in with the a∣foresaid Light-houses, until you come again near the shore in 5 or six fathom; being come by the shore, run again alongst by it, and keep the Sounding as before, till you come before Winterton.