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Sea control - Great Britain - Early works to 1800

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    Two letters wherein the sovereignty of the British seas , and that the sole right of fishing in them, appertaineth to the King of Great-Britain, &c. is demonstratively maintain'd and Asserted; for Information of the Projectors of the new proposed Fishing-Company in Flanders. With remarks on the Dutch fisheries on our coasts and seas; and the great Advantages arising from them: with some account of the deficiencies of our sea-charts; and the Means whereby the same may be rectified at an easy Charge to the Publick. With a new map of the British coast and seas, including the Nymph Fishing Bank; with Account of two Voyages to it. Most Humbly Inscribed to the Rt. Hon. Sir John Barnard, Knt. Lord Mayor of London; and the Merchant-Adventurers, Insurers, and Mariners of Great-Britain and Ireland; By William Doyle, hidrographer.

    Doyle, William, b. 1705?. | Date: 1738

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