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Beacon

8 Eliz. C. 13 to set up any beacons or sea-marks wherever they should be deemed necessary (see 10 & 11

Pharos

Pharos, a watch-tower, or sea-mark, which cannot be erected without lawful warrant and authority, 3

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Sea

Sea. See FOUR SEAS. The main or high seas are part … main sea begins at the low-watermark, but between the high-water mark and the low-water mark, where the sea ebbs and flows,

roads or non-tidal streams, see Ad medium fil', or the sea or tidal rives, in which case the high-water mark of … top line of the ditch bank furthest from the hedge marks the boundary of the land on which the hedge, if

Plimsolls mark

mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea going merchant vessels to indicate the limit of submergence allowed … A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea

Accretion

the gradual and imperceptible accumulation of land out of the sea or a river. Accretion of land is of two kinds: … dereliction, as when the sea shrinks below the usual water mark. If this accretion of land be by small and imperceptible

Escort

to movements on land as convoy is to movements at sea … a march also a body of persons attending as a mark of respect or honor applied to movements on land as

Isobar

of the earth where height of the barometer reduced to sea level is the same either at a given time or … A line connecting or marking places upon the surface of the earth where height of

Buoys and beacons

As to supervision of these marks and signs of the sea, see ss. 634 et seq. And s. 742 of the

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