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South Coast Harbours 1698
report by Edmund Dummer and Thomas Wiltshaw |
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Weymouth, Dorset:
'port'; on Weymouth Bay.
SY6878; sheet 194
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transcript of text pages
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Weymouth & Melcomb Regis
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Description of
the Port
Incapable of
improvemt.
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Stands upon a small Fresh from the Land Eastward of the Bill
and Road of Portland But here the Tydes rise no more than 7
Foot or thereabouts alike uncertain as at ye. two foregoing
Places, And have not above 3 ft. of Water in the Entrance to
the Harbour, Which to add no more are impediments that
preclude entirely all thoughts of improvemt for the Navy.
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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 |
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