The Buoy of the Searn.
The Buoy of the Searn is the eastermost Buoy that lyeth on the North-side of the Reculvers; the Steeple bearing from the Buoy South by West, then have you a Wind-mill a little open of the Channel of Reculvers-Church, or to bring over a small House that standeth a little to the East end of the Church. The Course up∣wards from this Buoy through the Narrow, is W.N.W. The longst Marks on the shore, * 1.1 is to bring Birchington-Church right over a Gaul, or black Hole in the Western part of the Cliff end. This Buoy is noted in the Draught with the letter w.
Between the Woolpack and the Pan-sands, or the West end of the Wedge and the Pan-sand, goes down a Chan∣nel of one mile and a half broad, * 1.2 and runs down E.N.E. At the first entrance, below the Wedge and Pan-sands, you have five fathom water; and so down to the east∣ward deeper, as 6, 7, and 8 fathoms; but at the North∣side of the Woolpack, betwixt that and the Pan-sands, there is but three and a half, and four fathoms at low-water; the more to the East, the Channel is deeper and broader.