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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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 June 2, 2024.
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Directions for sayling from Tilbury-Hope down to the Buoy of the Nower.
VVHen you break ground from Tilbury-Hope, if the wind be southerly, keep the South Shore close aboard; but be care∣ful of Blith-sand, which lyeth close to the Kentish-shore; and accordingly observe these Marks to carry you clear of it;
* 1.1 If in the day time, keep the Steeple of Tilbury-Church a great Sayls breadth without Hopeness, (alias, Sands-head-point): If in the night, or hazy-weather, keep your Lead, and come not within five fathom at low-water, and seven at high-water, and that depth will carry you clear without Blith-sand,* 1.2 and will lead you down to the Nower-head: But if the Wind be nor∣therly, then you must keep the North Shore, which is steep too, until you come as low as Hole-haven; and so keeping the Soundings aforesaid, you may run down to the Nower, where you may come to an anchor at the East end thereof.
* 1.3 The Marks for to keep you clear of the Sands, is to bring Prickelwel-steeple a Sayls breadth to the eastwards of the Wood that is on the North Shore by the Water-side, and there you may come to an Anchor.