The coasting pilot: Describing the sea-coasts, channels, soundings, sands, shoals, rocks, & dangers: the bayes, roads, harbours, rivers, ports, buoyes, beacons, and sea-marks, upon the coasts of England Flanders and Holland with directions to bring a shipp into any harbour on the said coasts. Being furnished with the new draughts, charts, and descriptions, gathered from ye experience and practise of diverse able and expert navigators of our English nation. / Collected and published by John Seller. Hydrographer in ordinary to the King.

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Title: The coasting pilot: Describing the sea-coasts, channels, soundings, sands, shoals, rocks, & dangers: the bayes, roads, harbours, rivers, ports, buoyes, beacons, and sea-marks, upon the coasts of England Flanders and Holland with directions to bring a shipp into any harbour on the said coasts. Being furnished with the new draughts, charts, and descriptions, gathered from ye experience and practise of diverse able and expert navigators of our English nation. / Collected and published by John Seller. Hydrographer in ordinary to the King.
Author: Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698.
Publication: [London] :: And are to be sold at his Shopps at the hermitage in Wapping: And in Exchange-Alley in Corne-Hill. And by W. Fisher at the Posterne on Towerhill: And by Jo. Wingfield in Crutched Fryars right against the Church,; [1671?]
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Subject terms: Nautical charts -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800.; Nautical charts -- England -- Early works to 1800.; Nautical charts -- Flanders -- Early works to 1800.; Nautical charts -- Holland -- Early works to 1800.
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Marks to go into the Isle of Wight.

If coming from the eastwards you desire to go into the Isle of Wight; then when you have brought the Culvers-Cliff, which is a white Chalk Cliff, without St. Hellens W. N. W. then you may steer in right with it, towards St. Hellens Point; in this course you shall meet divers Overfalls, whereon you water will shoal 1, 2, or 3 fathom; but if you be coming out of Wight with a Flood, bound for the eastwards, then especially the latter part of the Flood, when you are without St. Hellens, steer off S. S. E. and South by East, if the Wind will give you leave, until you have brought the above-said Cliff to bear North-west by West, and North-west, then steer off South-east by East, or South-East, until you come to sixteen or eighteen fathom, a certain depth, before you steer away East by North, for the latter part of the Flood, by reason of the In∣draught of the Isle of Wight, sets in from Donnose North-east by North, and North-east, as far to the eastwards as the Owers.

If in the Channel, some five leagues from Donnose, South-east, there is a thwart Ledge, or an Overfall, on which there is not above seven fathom in some places; if any should meet with this Shoal coming into the Channel, it would fright them, for within a league to the westwards of it there is 30 fathom and upwards.