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which lie effected by thirty men in twenty-four hours ; 

 and that Mr. Isaac Starbuck, an aged pilot of Graves- 

 end, remembered about sixty years since goiug through 

 a bridge of eighteen feet span on his way to Snodland 

 Paper Mill with paper stuff, and as he (Nelson), in 

 cutting open the bar or communication between the Isle 

 of Grain and the hundred, had found the foundation 

 of the former bridge, he desired me (R. Pocock) to 

 give him what information I could about any ancient 

 map or document relative to Kent in favour of the said 

 city, which I did by saying that Symon's map of the 

 county I thought the best; but it is very surprising, 

 although so many have been published, not one yet 

 (1823) may be called even nearly perfect, as they are 

 very defective by not pointing out the different ferries, 

 locks, impediments, improvements, and many other 

 remarkable things worthy of notice. 



te Mr. Nelson lives at Barge Yard, Lambeth, and 

 has been a very active officer for many years to the 

 City on the Courts of Conservancies. When the great 

 whale was taken to London (which I accompanied to 

 sell its description, on a speculation that answered 

 well, having measured, named, and described it), Mr. 

 Nelson daily visited it, and I spent the evenings with 

 him and the proprietors of it until it was ordered 

 away by the City and Admiralty as a nuisance (each 

 claiming it as their privilege). 



i( Wednesday, Ylih. George went to Rochester, 

 having been disappointed by Mr. Evans, the book- 

 binder, in his work. At about nine at night the storm 

 so violent as to blow several bricks off the chimney, 

 and the General Harris, East India ship, ashore, on 

 the north side near Grays. 



