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| Megstone | Megstone | Mr W Darling, Longstone. | N.W. By W.1/3 W. | A black bare rock, about 16 feet above high | ||
| Megstone | Admiralty Chart of 1837 | one mile from the | water, devoid of vegetation, but whitened with | |||
| Megstone | Admiralty ‘North Sea Pilot 1858’ | Inner Farne. | the dung of Cormorants, who rest here, but do | |||
| On Sheet | not now breed upon it; it is useful as a | |||||
| 12a C | sailing mark, and has deep water on its | |||||
| eastern side. The stone is basaltic, much | ||||||
| fissured, and shewing several tops at high water | ||||||
| and at the N.E where it is boldest, dips west | ||||||
| with a rough surface, partly strewn with boulders. | ||||||
| Sw |
Swedman | Mr W Darling, Longstone | Half a mile west | Swedman, – anciently called ‘Mere Carres’, | ||
| Swedman | Mr G Tate, Alnwick | of Megstone | sea rocks’ – extending half a mile west from | |||
| Swedman | Raine’s History of N. Durham | On Sheet | Megstone, four of them being visible at | |||
| Swadman o.m.o. | Admiralty Chart of 1857 | 12a C | Low Spring tides, and the reef indicated | |||
| Swadman | Admiralty N. Sea Pilot 1858 | by sea tangle floating above it; at its | ||||
| western extremity there is a black nun | ||||||
| Swadman adopted | buoy, to mark the passage between it | |||||
| and the mainland for vessels of burden. | ||||||
| AMR |
Note: Signed in header by AM Roy (or AMcKay?)
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