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Having done with the Land, one word of the Sea. 
Our great Bay Mr. Camden calls Wafhes, whereas 
they are only two fmall Arms of the Sea, runing 
into it , ^iz, Fofdike and Crcfi-keys ; 'tis full of 
Sands, making two Channels to Lyn^ and as many to 
Bofion^ a Chart whereof is now Publifhing (from my 
Survey, taken about three Years fmce, which Captain 
CcllifiS defigned to have added to his Great Britains 
Coafting Pilot') by the ingenious JVlr. Richard Belly 
Alderman of L)n\ he having formerly drawn fcve- 
ral Profpeds of the Town, and feveral publick Edifi- 
ces thereof, with his own hand, and all at his own 
Charge ; we hope it may be of Pubhck ufe,- for when 
Shipping come into the Bay, between the Spurn and 
Winterton, they can hardly claw it ofF (as Sea mta 
phrafe it) with Northerly and Eaftcr'y Winds, and fb 
muft come on the Norfolk Coaft, or among our 
Sands, Two hundred Sail having not long fince Perifh- 
edat once, upon, and among thtm, for want of Know- 
ledge in our Channels, feveral then faving themfelvcs ^ 
therein. And it may be ufeful to Travellers, to have 
a Table when to pafs over the faid Wafhes , tho' 
without a Guide I would not advife them, efpecially 
after great FreQies, which make the Sands Shift, and 
confequently Quick, and Horfes many times (tick faft ; 
the way to get them out, is, by feveral Peoples tramp- 
ling round them at a diftance, which by degrees raifeth 
them. 
Some Years^reat quantities of Acus Major come in- 
to our Haven, and they fay the frefh Water blinds them, 
and that they portend hard Winters we have had of 
them this Year : They run their Beaks into our Oufy 
Shoar, where the Tide leaves them, and fo are taken 
up in great quantities they are laid to eat like Macka- 
rel ; their Palate is ruled by the Eye, they looking like 
them. 
