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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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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Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698.
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[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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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B05788.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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To sayl to the westward from St. Hellens.
To sayl to the westward from St. Hellens, Keep no nearer the Shore than you can see the Windmills which stand on the High-Land of the Wight, open of the said Land, lest you come on the broad Sand cal∣led Nomans-Land, which lyeth from the Point of Newport-Road eastward alongst the Shore, which fal∣leth dry at low-water, but close aboard of it you will have twelve fathom; when the Town of Ride and the
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Windmill which standeth S. S. W. from it, are both in one, then are you thwart the midst of it; if you come so near the Shore that the aforesaid Windmills be hid with the Land, then will you be aground against it; but as long as they are open, you need not fear. Cous-Road is the best Harbour in the Wight; betwixt it and Calshot-Castle lyeth a hard Shoal nearest the North Shore in the Fairway,
called the Brambles, and reacheth as far thwart as Newport; at low-water and Spring-tydes it falleth almost dry; then you may know it by the Seas breaking over it; to avoid which, keep close to the Island until you come into Cows-Road.