soundings

Our soundings were between fifteen and seventeen fathoms, and our distance from the beach from six to seven miles.

This course will carry a ship over two of my tracks, and the soundings will be in seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen fathoms.

And when they come to look at that spare room they had to take soundings before they could navigate it.

The set of the current and the soundings both pointed to the east side of the bay under the ledge of rocks.

Soundings and courses and distances, are detailed with the tedious prolixity, and probably, with the uncertainty of the era.