Crossword-Solution: CHANELS 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

And forasmuch as the Baie of Pechora is a most conuenient place both for harbour and victuall, as well in their going foorth as in their returne home in regard of Ice and tempest, he is determined to bestow a day in sounding the Flats, and in searching out the best entrance for ships: in which place heretofore he found the water to be but fiue foote deepe, howbeit he doubteth not but that there are deeper chanels: [Sidenote: The Island of Vaigats.

Pryor returned in the evening and reported that he had assended the river Six Miles; that above the point which it divides itself into two Chanels, it is about 300 yards wide tho the Chanel is not more than 50 yards, and only 6 feet deep.

The Soundinges likewise: and the Chanels wayes: their number, and depthes ordinarily, at ebbe and flud, ought the _Hydrographer_, by obseruation and diligence of _Measuring_, to haue certainly knowen.

There are (saith he) many remarkable towns within the currents of Nile, especially such which have given the names unto the ostiaries thereof, not unto all, for they are eleven, and four besides, but unto seven and most considerable; that is _Canopicum_, _Bolbitinum_, _Selenneticum_, _Sebenneticum_, _Pharniticum_, _Mendesium_, _Taniticum_ and _Pelusium_: wherein to make up the number, one of the artificial chanels of _Herodotus_ is accounted.