remarks

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"Let the shipwrecks of others be your seamarks," said one.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2022

Matthiessen describes dazed seabirds wandering “the thick waters with sad muted cries, hunting seamarks that might return them to the order of the world.”

From The New Yorker • May 19, 2017

Islands, rivers, capes, bays, and other land or seamarks, by which navigators usually describe their progress along an unknown coast, are almost entirely unmentioned.

From The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America by Murphy, Henry Cruse

Yes; and then they would be straining their eyes in the endeavour to see the Great Horse—that's a group of firs on the top of a hill, and one of our Forest seamarks.

From Vixen, Volume II. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Not one of these places mentioned was within hundreds of miles of Bilbao, but all the seamarks were to guide the mariners to Ireland.

From King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 by Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble)