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| Gun Rock | Gun Rock | Mr Darling, Longstone | on Sheet | A sunken danger extending from ‘Skiney | ||
| Gun Rock | Mr Patterson, Monkshouse | 12a D | Carr’ northward for about 1/4 of a mile, | |||
| Gun Rock | Mr Patterson, N. Sunderland | having at its north end, two patches | ||||
| of rock above low water, but, covered | ||||||
| entirely at high water, off which | ||||||
| part, the Armada gun in Bambrough | ||||||
| Castle, was taken, which has caused | ||||||
| the rock to be called ‘Gun rock’- | ||||||
| North Wamses | North Wamses | Mr Darling, Longstone | on Sheet | Two pretty large islands which at | ||
| and | Mr Patterson, Monkshouse | 12a D | low water form only one island | |||
| South Wamses | South Wamses | Mr Patterson, N. Sunderland | on Sheet | having a scanty vegetation on a peaty | ||
| 12a D | soil impregnated with the excreciae | |||||
| of birds, and remarkable as the chief | ||||||
| breeding place of the Cormorant, and | ||||||
| when approaching from leeward, a disa | ||||||
| -greeable smell is percieved at some | ||||||
| distance, arising from the filthy nests – | ||||||
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