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Author: XhosaNavy
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English[en]
It tells us, for example, that off Belle Isle 'there is in sixty or seventy fathoms small dial sand' (the sort of sand used in sand-glasses) and off Penmarch 'there is in fifty fathoms black ooze'.
Xhosa[xh]
Iyasixelela, umzekelo yokuba iBelle Isle 'phakathi kukho amashumi amathandathu okanye amashumi asixhenxe umhlaba omncinci' (udidi lomhlaba osetyenziswa kwiiglasi zomhlaba) kwaye ePenmarch 'kukho ifathomus ezingamashumi amahlanu ezimnyama'.