Directions for the Mouth of the River.
FRom the Point of the Hope, called Sands-bead-Point, down as far as the Isle of Sbeppy, the Reach lyeth East and West: A little below Sands-bead-Point, is Cliff-Creek; and between this Creek and that Point, lyeth Blyth-Sand, which lyeth close by the Shore, whereon is but seven foot at low-water: Right against Cliff-Creek, lyeth Shell-haven on the North side; and a little below that lyeth Hull-Haven; about a Cables length from the Shore lyeth Rocks, * 1.1 cal∣led Hull-Haven-Scars, which are very dangerous, for a Ship that draweth but twelve foot water hath been a∣ground on them. A mile to the eastwards of these Rocks, is the entrance into Lee-Swatch; the Chanuel going into Lee, is at the eastermost part of the Sand be∣tween the Marsh Point and it. A mile below this en∣trance into Lee, * 1.2 right against which Town is a low Island, called Canvey; and from the eastermost Point runneth off a Sand four miles in length: * 1.3 There is also a Sand called the Chapman, lyeth far from the Shore, and is steep too, for close by it you will have seven fa∣thom water, and the next cast a-ground; and to the eastward of the Chapman, lyeth a smooth Sand which is dry at low-water; and between this Sand and the Kentish Shore, there are two middle Grounds, which do tayl down from Shooberry to the Whitaker, and there is no riding for a Ship that draweth 17, 18, or 19 foot water. From between Shooberry-ness and the Nower, and so down to Black-tayl, * 1.4 there lyeth a Sand called the Warp, whereon there is not above three fathom and a half, or four fathom at low-water; on the sou∣thermost side, right against Shooberry-ness, is a Sand called the Nower, whereon is a Buoy, which is right a∣gainst the West-swayl, coming out of the Waters of the Medway, which lyeth between the Isle of Grean and the Isle of Sheppy.