348 Mr. pigott’s 
Frampton-houfe lies between Cowbridge and Lantwit- 
about four miles fouth of the former, and one mile north of 
the latter, and about two miles from the Briftol channel ; is 
nearly under the fame meridian as Watchet, a market town in 
Somerfetfhire. 
The rocks on the Welch coaft, which . run obliquely flanting 
into the Briftol channel, render the navigation fo dangerous* 
that each year affords the horrid fpedtacle of fhips wrecked ; 
and here I am forry to add, that the barbarous cuftom of plun- 
dering thefe unfortunate veflels ftill fubfifts in all its inhuma- 
nity ; at the fame time it would be injuftice to the gentlemen 
of the country to pafs under filence their repeated endeavours 
to check this enormity ; but hitherto their efforts have not been 
attended with much fuccefs : it is due to humanity to make fuch 
bad pradfices public, in hopes of exciting an inquiry, which 
juftice and the honour of the nation loudly call for. 
The little that has been faid fuffices to fhew the expediency 
of corredt maps of this channel. The univerfal opinion of the 
country is, that to the Somerfetfhire oppofite coaft, about 
Watchet, Purlock, &c. the breadth of the channel is twenty 
or twenty-one miles. A fingle glance of the eye feems fuffi- 
cient to contradidt this notion ; however, as upon infpedting 
my maps I found the diftances fet down not greatly different 
from what report had made them, we meafured them geome- 
trically, and the refult gave the channel, not twenty, but 
little more than thirteen miles broad at the abovementioned 
places. 
Upon the whole it is to be wifhed, that aftronomical obferva- 
tions, fufficiently corredl, were made on the Somerfetfhire fide, 
which might be compared with thofe I have made on the oppo- 
fite fhore. It may poffihly be found, that the towns on the 
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