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To sayl to the westward from St. Hellens, Keep no nearer the Shore than you can see the Windmills which stand on the High-Land of the Wight, open of the said Land, lest you come on the broad Sand cal∣led Nomans-Land, which lyeth from the Point of Newport-Road eastward alongst the Shore, which fal∣leth dry at low-water, but close aboard of it you will have twelve fathom; when the Town of Ride and the
Windmill which standeth S. S. W. from it, are both in one, then are you thwart the midst of it; if you come so near the Shore that the aforesaid Windmills be hid with the Land, then will you be aground against it; but as long as they are open, you need not fear. Cous-Road is the best Harbour in the Wight; betwixt it and Calshot-Castle lyeth a hard Shoal nearest the North Shore in the Fairway, * 1.1 called the Brambles, and reacheth as far thwart as Newport; at low-water and Spring-tydes it falleth almost dry; then you may know it by the Seas breaking over it; to avoid which, keep close to the Island until you come into Cows-Road.
Brambles