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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Quade-Bank or Brake.

The Quade-Bank runneth off to the eastwards of the Head of Dunkirk, at least two leagues to the west∣ward, ending thwart the Heads of Dunkirk, to the east∣ward of the easter Head; you may anchor behind the Bank, sheltered for a North-west, a North, and North∣east Winds; you have two fathoms there at low-water, but in the coming in it is shoaler; before the Havens Mouth of Dunkirk is nine and ten fathom, and to the westward of the wester Head 6, 7, and 8 fathom; from thence men may run over the small Bank in three fa∣thom, and come against the Broad-bank.