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.

Other directions for the Swin, and so through the Kings-Channel to∣wards the Downs.

When you come down as low as the Whitaker, then take heed and keep the shoaling thereof, until you are two miles below it; then you come to the shoaling of the Middle-ground, which is steep too; for if you do turn down, you must about when you come to ten fa∣thom water, because it is narrow; and so the shoaling of the Middle-ground doth continue till you come down as low as the Buoy of the Spits: The Channel begins to be broader, and if the wind be so that you must turn, be sure to keep hold of the Gunfleet; but if the wind be fair that you may lead it, run down in the shoaling of the Gunfleet, till you bring the Naze N.N.W. and then go thence North-east by East also, that it will lead you clear of the Sonk; and go still that course, till you have brought the Naze-land W. N. W. or West by North. The Sonk doth lie from the Naze North-east and South-west; so that if you bring the Naze-land to lie West by North, you may be bold to go a more easterly course, until you come to sixteen or eighteen fathom; for fourteen or fifteen fathom will go hard by the Kentish-Knock. Note also that you may see the Trees over the Naze, when you cannot see the Naze. The Kentish-Knock doth lie from the Long-sand-head, three or four miles E.S.E. And when you have the aforesaid sixteen fathom, then you may judge the Naze-Land to be W. N. W. or West by North; then go thence S.S.W. upon an Ebb, and upon a flood South, or S.S.E. as the Wind is, or the weakness of the Tyde, so must you work, and that will carry you clear with the North-Foreland; and if you go about the North-sand-head, or about all, or the Goodwin, then you must keep more easterly; and note, that the North-sand-head and the Long sand-head, lyeth South and North, and the Kentish-Knock lyeth from the North-foreland North by East, and South by West; there is nothing between Marget-sand and the North-foreland, and therefore you need not fear: And as I said before, to go about the Goodwin, run off till you come to 26 or 30 fathom. for 18 or 20 fathom goeth near the Sand; and so run in this depth until you have brought the Land of Dover open of the South Foreland, then you may be bold to hale in with the Foreland; there is nothing between the Goodwin, and Marget-sand, or North-foreland, to fear.

Notes

• Middle-Ground.
• Buoy of the Spits.
• Gun-fleet.
• Kentish-Knock.
• Long-sand-head.
• North-sand-head.