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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Broad-Bank.

The South end hereof lyeth from Calice-Cliff N. E. by East three leagues three quarters, and hath a Ridge on the South end, where there is but half a fathom at low-water; this Bank lyeth in the Sea North-east and South-west, being in length five leagues; on the S. W. end you have 5, 7, and 8 fathom, and on the N.E. end, 1, 1 and a half, 2, 2 and a half, 3, 4, and 5 fathom; from the S. side, which is convex, runneth off a Spit E.N.E. 3 miles, whereon is but 1 and a half, and 2 fathom; the N.E. end lyeth from Newport West by North 4 leagues and a quarter, and from the Cloyster of Tenduynen, North-west by North, three leagues and a half.

When Graveling is South-East from you, then are you thwart of the South end of the foresaid Banks; and when Newport is South-east by East, then are you thwart of the North end of them.