The Gunfleet and Buoy.
The Gunfleet is a long Sand, by judgment eight or nine miles, and hath in it some small Swatches; the South-west end of it, and the North-east end is flat, and good shoaling, but on either side steep, in some parts of it more than other: You may sayl alongst it on the South side; from the South-west end downwards in seven fathom, till you come within a large mile of the Buoy, come no nearer then nine fathom: Here lyeth a Hook E.S.E. off from the Sand a long Cables length; * 1.1 on the South-east side of which goeth a small Swatch quite through the Sand to the North-west, which cau∣seth the Tyde to set in there; so that when Vessels pass near it, (if not careful in time) it draweth them into the Swatch, or upon the Hook; to avoid which, come no nearer this part of the Sand then ten fathom. From this Hook, to the North-east end, this Sand is very steep too, but at the end flat as aforesaid: This Sand lyeth North-east and South-west, a good part of it dryeth, in some parts half a mile, and other parts one third of a mile broad; and if you stand from this Sand to the Heaps, come no nearer them than ten fathom; in the middle of the Channel is eight fathom. The Buoy of the Gunfleet lyeth from the Naze South-east by East four miles.