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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The Shooe and Beacon.
The Shooe is also a part of the forementioned great Flat, being very steep too: The course from the Black∣tayl to the Shooe and Beacon, is North-east, half easter∣ly, about four or five miles. You must not come nearer the Beacon then nine or ten fathom; and you may stand over towards the Mouse in ten fathom, and no nearer.
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From this Beacon to the Buoy of the Oaze-edge, the course is South-west by South, distant about four miles. Between this Beacon and the Whitaker, you may come in six fathom on the North side, and on the South side, near the Mouse, in ten fathom. In the Fair-way is se∣ven, eight, or nine fathom. The Shooe-beacon and Buoy of the Red-Sand, do bear North and South, near∣est one of the other, betwixt five and six miles.
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