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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To sayl out at the back-side of the Gun-fleet.

If you will sayl out at the back-side of the Gun∣fleet, being in the Sleds in seven fathom, borrow on the West-Rocks in four or five fathom, steering S. S. W. or South-west by West; but go not to the southwards of five fathoms, till you be over the tayl of the Rocks; and when you are over the Rocks, you shall have seven or eight fathom; but go not without eight fathom on the West side, and borrow on the Gunfleet in six or se∣ven fathom, going South-west by South, or South-west, till you come up to the Spits, or as you see occasion.