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The British channel pilot: : containing directions, for sailing into, and out of, all the principal roads and harbours, from London to Barmouth, in Wales; from Ostend to Brest, in France; and from Tuskar Rock, along the south coast of Ireland to Limerick: with descriptions of the capes, head-lands, bays, roads, harbours, rivers, rocks, sands, shoals, depth of water, &c. Also an account of the tides: with the method of finding the times of high water at any place
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