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It confifts of a flat tongue of land, called 

 Needfore-point^ , which runs out a confiderable 

 way 'y and at low- water unites with the mud- 

 lands. When the tide flows, it is in part 

 covered with water. We found it in this 

 latter fituation^ and our boat made a fhort 

 pufh over it, infl:ead of going round by the 

 mouth of the river. 



It is fomewhat remarkable, that there is 

 one of thefe fpits of land, near the mouth of 

 each of thefe forefl:-rivers ; and alfo at the 

 mouth of Southampton-bay. Hurfl;-cafl:le, 

 formerly intended to guard the pafllage through 

 the Needles, occupies one near the mouth of 

 Lymington-river -, and Calfhot-caflile another, 

 at the entrance of Southampton-bay. On 

 Needfore-point, which is the middle one, 



a fortrefs was thought unnecefl'ary. But 



tho thefe fpits of land are remarkable, they 

 are eafily accounted for. The united force 

 of wind and tide from the fouth-weil, and 



* Needfore, that is, Needs-fhore, but the Jh was not ufed 

 in Saxon orthography. Hence Needfore, Stanfore, and other 

 terminations of that kind on this coaft ; and Windfor, Hedfor, 

 ice. on the Thames. 



weft. 



