report by Edmund Dummer and Thomas Wiltshaw
SX8751; sheet 202
the Harbour
Objections to
of good
Accomodation
report by Edmund Dummer and Thomas Wiltshaw
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South Coast Harbours 1698
report by Edmund Dummer and Thomas Wiltshaw |
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Dartmouth, Devon:
'port'; at the bottom of the estuary of the River Dart,
running into the English Channel. SX8751; sheet 202 |
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Description of the Harbour Objections to of good Accomodation |
About two Leagues Westward of Torbay is a Noble River, but Scituated between mighty high Land especially at its very Entrance, there wants no Water without or within it, nor many other improveable advantages for Shipping Publique or Private wch: may be referr'd to in a Survey taken by Order of the Year 90 But by reason of the conceived Hazards of Entring the same under the High lands and Rocky Shoares, it seems to have been rejected, and the emprovemts: for the Navy then intended were made in Ham=oze by Plymouth. |
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museum inventory notes and transcription of the chart |
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summary relating to this harbour |
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South Coast Harbours 1698
report by Edmund Dummer and Thomas Wiltshaw |