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Description of the Northernmost part

of England / of which the river at New- / Castle is the most prominent harbor.

From Scarborough original: "Scherenborch" to Whitby original: "Wissbuy" is four miles North-West by West / and it is a river or tide-harbor. On the south side of the harbor a reef runs out / half a mile into the sea. Whoever wishes to enter Whitby / should sail in between two beacons original: "Backen," literally "cheeks," referring to the headlands or markers at the harbor entrance / until he comes between both shores where one may lie well afloat. From Whitby to Hartlepool original: "Hertepöl" is seven miles / and there to the West goes a large inlet / named the Tees / which is a beautiful harbor / stretching West-Southwest / in the middle of this same harbor original: "Hauẽ" it is thirty fathoms a fathom, or vadem, is a unit of depth equal to six feet deep / but in the innermost part before Stockton it is four fathoms deep.

Item, seven miles original: "meilẽ" to the North of Hartlepool lies the headland of Sunderland original: "Sonderla". From there two miles Northward lies the castle of Tynemouth original: "Tinmuden" / where to the South the river of Newcastle flows in. The markers are these: One aligns two fire-towers early lighthouses and a forest-tree original: "Walthbaume," a prominent tree used as a navigational landmark / and thus sails the channel original: "gatt" out and in until inside the village / where it is three and a half original: "viertehalb" fathoms deep; upon entering at half-tide it is two fathoms. From Tynemouth to Coquet Island original: "Coggen Eylandt" is seven miles N.N.W. which one may sail all around / and find anchorage at four and five fathoms.