number of voters is about 700, consisting of the burgesses, and such of the inhabitants as pay scot and lot. Several royal burgesses have been enrolled in this corporation, among whom are the late king and his present majesty. The origin and name of Southampton have occasioned much discussion. The name is written Hanton or Hantune in the Doomsday book, and is supposed to be derived from the river Ant or Antom. The Romans had a settlement at Bittern, about a mile and a half from Southampton, named Clausenham. The present town arose after that was abandoned. Hampton must have been a place of consequence under the AngloSaxons, as it gave name to the whole county. From the year 273 until the accession of Canute it was subject to frequent ravages by the Danes. This monarch appears to have occasionally resided at Southampton; and it was here that the incident happened which is recorded of him, when he ordered his chair to be set on the sea shore, and attempted to control the waves. During the thirteenth century a good trade was carried on between this port and France. In 1345 the army which afterwards fought at the battle of Cressy was embarked here, as was also the army which, in 1415, fought at Agincourt. The trade of the town appears again to have flourished in the reign of Henry VI., and Camden, who wrote in the reign of Elizabeth, says that in his time the town was famous for the number and beauty of its buildings, and the resort of numerous merchants. After this, however, it appears to have declined, as Gibson, in 1695, describes it as going fast to decay. Since that time, however, the trade and consequence of the town have again revived. In 1811 the town contained 1669 houses, and 9617 inhabitants. Markets on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, well supplied with excellent fish and other provisions. There are two annual fairs, the principal of which is Trinity. Twelve miles S.S. W. of Winchester, and seventy-five W. S. W. of London. Long. 1° 24′ W., lat. 50° 54′ N. SOUTHAMPTON, a township of the United States, in Rockingham county, New Hampshire. -2. A township of Hampshire county, Massachusetts, which contains a lead mine. Ninetyeight miles west of Boston.-3. A post township of Suffolk county, New York, on the south side of Long Island. 100 miles east of New York. -4. A township of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania.-5. A township of Franklin county, Pennsylvania.-6. A township of Bedford county, Pennsylvania. Population 932.-7. A township of Somerset county, Pennsylvania.-8. A township of Bucks county, Pennsylvania.-9. A county of the United States, in the south-east part of Virginia, bounded north-west by Sussex and Surry counties, east by Isle of Wight and Nansemond counties, south by North Carolina, and south-west by Greensville county. Jerusalem is the chief town. SOUTHCOTT (Joanna), a remarkable fanatic of recent times, who attracted by her pretensions numerous converts in London and its vicinity. They are said to have amounted at one period to upwards of 100,000. She was born in the west of England, about 1750, of very humble parents, and, being carried away by the fervor of a heated imagination, gave herself out as the woman spoken of in the book of Revelations. In this capacity, although altogether illiterate, she scribbled much mystic nonsense in the way of vision and prophecy, and for a while carried on a lucrative trade in the sale of seals, which were, under certain conditions, to secure salvation. A disorder of rather rare occurrence finally giving her the outward appearance of pregnancy, after she had passed her grand climacteric, she announced herself as the mother of a promised Shiloh, whose speedy advent she confidently predicted. More than one clergyman of the established church was numbered among her votaries. A cradle of expensive materials, and highly decorated, was prepared at a fashionable upholsterer's, for the expected babe. So fully persuaded were many of her attendants of the reality of her mission, that one of the ecclesiastics already alluded to, on receiving a remonstrance from his diocesan, offered to bind himself to resign a benefice he possessed into the bishop's hands, if the holy Joanna, as he styled her, should fail to appear on a specified day with the expected Shiloh. As a specimen of the extravagant delusion which may be popular in the neighbourhood of the most enlightened metropolis of the world, we subjoin a specimen or two of her reveries. I have this to inform the public,' says the holy woman in her Warning to the whole World, p. 123, that the prophecies of this book show the destruction of Satan, and the coming of Christ's kingdom. Here my readers may ask me, what ground I have to affirm this belief? I answer, from the truth that is past I have ground to believe that other truths will follow. From the former I judge the latter. The war that I foretold in 1792 we should be engaged in followed in 1793. The dearth, which came upon the land in 1794 and 1795, I foretold in 1792; and, if unbelief did abound, that a much greater scarcity would take place, and which too fatally followed. I foretold the bad harvest in 1797. I foretold, in letters sent to two ministers of Exeter, what would be the harvests of 1799 and 1800; that the former would be hurt by rain, and the latter by sun :-these followed as predicted. The rebellion which took place in Ireland, in 1798, I foretold in 1795, when the Irish soldiers rebelled in Exeter against the English officers. . . . . . . I foretold the secret thoughts and conversation of people in Exeter, which took place in 1792.' 'The letter I sent to the Rev. Archdeacon Moore last spring foretold the harvest as it came. I was ordered to put it in my own hand writing, to prevent his reading it before the time was expired! You may marvel how a woman that professed to say she is called of God, to write such deep prophecies, and have the mysteries of the Bible explained to her, should write such a hand as no one can read. But this must be to fulfil the Bible. Every vision John saw in heaven must take place upon earth; and here is the sealed book that no one can read. The following is a communication given to Joanna in 1794 concerning the vials in the Revelation, and taken from the sealed writings opened January 12th, 1803. No man by learning can these truths find out : Thy pen's put down, and thou no more can'st say, Great peace in England after that shall be, In p. 37, we find the following prophecy, I write to you, Sir, as a friend, to judge for yourself. If unbelief do still abound, the next harvest will be worse than the last, and your repentance may come too late. I am ready to answer for myself in all I have said or done. I have written no cunningly devised fable to any man, but written to make known unto all men the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ; and am, with the greatest respect, your humble JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. servant, 'Now, I must beg my readers to observe,' says the prophetess, this letter was written the 2d of March, in the year 1800; and the harvest that followed was worse, as foretold, than the former of 1799.'-With regard to her last and most extraordinary attempt at delusion, more than one medical man who examined her, attested her pregnancy; and a numerous body of partizans were the dupes of her imposture to the moment of her death. Dr. Reece gives the following account of a visit, at which he was present a few weeks before she died. Five or six of her friends, who were waiting in the next room, were admitted into her bed-chamber. She desired them,' says our author, 'to be seated round her bed; when spending a few minutes in adjusting the bed clothes with seeming attention, and placing before her a white handkerchief, she thus addressed them, as nearly as I can recollect, in the following words. My friends, some of you have known me nearly twenty-five years, and all of you not less than twenty. When you have heard me speak of prophecies, you have sometimes heard me say that I doubted my inspiration. But at the same time you would never let me despair. When I have been alone it has often appeared delusion; but, when the communication was made to me, I did not in the least doubt. Feeling, as I now do feel, that my dissolution is drawing near, and that a day or two may terminate my life, it all appears delusion.'-She was by this exertion quite exhausted, and wept bitterly. On reviving, in a little time, she observed that it was very extraordinary, that after spending all her life in investigating the Bible, it should please the Lord to inflict that heavy burden on her. She concluded this discourse, by requesting that every thing on this occasion might be conducted with decency. She then wept; and all her followers present seemed deeply affected, and some of them shed tears. Mother,' said one (I believe Mr. Howe), 'we will commit your instructions to paper; and rest assured they shall be conscientiously followed.' They were accordingly written down with much solemnity, and signed by herself, with her hand placed on the Bible in the bed... This being finished, Mr. Howe again observed to her, 'Mother, your feelings are human. We know that you are a favored woman of God, and that you will produce the promised child; and whatever you may say to the contrary will not diminish our faith.' This assurance revived her, and the scene of crying was changed with her to laughter. She died 27th of December 1814; four days after which event her body was inspected, but no child was found. The faith of her disciples, however, was not extinguished by her death. The dead body was kept warm for four days, according, as was said, to her own directions, in hopes of a revival, and the birth of the promised child; and it was not consigned to the dissector, till putrefaction had rendered it extremely offensive. Hopes are even yet, we understand, cherished, that, although she has been withdrawn for a season, she will one day return with her son, and fulfil the promises, whose accomplishment has been delayed on account of the wickedness of the world. In fact, as some of her disciples, and particularly Mr. Sharp, have suggested, that she is the woman described at the beginning of the twelfth chapter of the Revelation; it is evident from the perusal of that chapter, that both the mother and the child were to disappear from the earth, but to return at the end of a period not easy to be defined. Mr. Sharp publicly asserted his conviction that she was only gone to heaven for a season, in order to legitimate the embryo child.' In this persuasion he, as well as many others, lived and died, nor is the sect yet extinct; on the contrary, within a short period several families of her disciples were living together in the neighbourhood of Chatham remarkable for the patriarchal length of their beards and the general singularity of their appearance. After the body of Joanna had been submitted to anatomical investigation (when the extraordinary appearance of her shape was fully accounted for upon medical principles), her remains were conveyed for interment under a fictitious name to the burying ground attached to the chapel in St. John's Wood. A stone has been erected to her memory, which, after reciting her age, and other usual particulars, concludes with some lines, evidently the composition of a still unshaken believer. SOUTHEND, a hamlet, risen of late into great repute as a watering-place, in the parish of Prittlewell (with which the population is returned), hundred of Rochford, Essex, at the mouth of the Thames, opposite to Sheerness, three miles and a half east from Leigh, and forty-two from London, is pleasantly situate on the slope of a hill. The air is esteemed very salubrious, and the water, notwithstanding its mixture with the Thames, is clear and salt. The terrace is a row of houses handsomely finished with pilasters and cornices of stone, and, being on an eminence, has a noble prospect of the Nore, Medway, Sheerness, and the sea. The assembly-room is fitted up in a handsome style, and the theatre is neat: the Jibrary, situate on the brow of the hill, between the Old and New Town, is an elegant Gothic building. The accommodations are respectable. SOUTHERN (Thomas), an eminent dramatic writer, born at Dublin in 1660, and educated in the university there. He came young to London to study law, but devoted himself to poetry and the drama. His Persian Prince, or Loyal Brother, was introduced in 1682, when the Tory interest was triumphant in England; and the character of the loyal brother being intended to compliment James duke of York, he rewarded the author, when he came to the throne, with a commission in the army. On the revolution he retired to his studies, and wrote several plays, from which he derived a very handsome subsistence, being the first who raised the profits of play-writing to a second and third night. The most finished of all his plays is Oroonoko, or the Royal slave, which is built on a true story, related in one of Mrs. Behn's novels. He died in 1746, aged eighty-six. The latter part of his days he spent in a peaceful serenity, having, by his commission as a soldier, and the profits of his dramatic works, acquired a handsome fortune; and, being an exact economist, he improved what he had gained to the best advantage. He enjoyed the longest life of all our poets; and died one of the richest of them. His plays are printed in 2 vols. 12mo. SOUTH'ERNWOOD, n. s. Sax. rudernpudu. Abrotanum. This plant agrees in most parts with the wormwood, from which it is not easy to separate it. Miller. SOUTHGATE (Rev. Richard), F. S. A., a late eminent English antiquary. Having gone through the usual course of study, and taken orders, he was appointed rector of Warsop in Nottinghamshire and curate of St. Giles's in the Fields. He was an active parish priest, and was indefatigable in his attendance on the poor, whom he waited on in all places and at all hours, by day and night, in the garrets and cellars of St. Giles's, and made a surprising reformation upon many of them. As an antiquarian he was almost unrivalled in numismatic knowledge; on which account he was made a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and assistant librarian to the British Museum. He died January 25th, 1795. SOUTH'SAY, v. n. & n. s. Corrupted from SOOTHSAY, which see. To predict; prediction. All those were idle thoughts and fantasies, Devices, dreams, opinions unsound, Shews, visions, southsays, and prophecies, And all that feigned is, as leasings, tales, and lies. Faerie Queene. Young men, hovering between hope and fear, might easily be carried into the superstition of southsaying by names. Camden. SOUTHWARK, an ancient borough of England, adjacent to London, on the opposite bank of the Thames. It was called by the Saxons Suth, or the South work, in respect to some fort bearing that aspect from London. It was also called the Borough, or Burg, and was long independent of London; but, in consideration of the inconveniences arising from the escape of malefactors into this place, it was in 1327 granted by Edward III. to the city on payment of £10 annually. It was then called the village of Southwark, afterwards the bailiwic, and the mayor and commonalty of London appointed the bailiff. This power, however, not being sufficient to remedy the evil, in the reign of Edward VI. it was formed into a twenty-sixth ward by the title of Bridge-Ward Without. In consequence of this it was subjected to the lord mayor of London, with the steward and bailiff. But this was only the division called the Borough Liberty. For the city division the lord mayor by his steward holds a court of record every Monday at the sessions-house on St. Margaret's Hill in this borough, for all debts, damages, &c. The other division is called the Clink, or the Manor of Southwark, and is subdivided into the Great Liberty, the Guildhall, and the King's Manor; for each of which subdivisions a court-leet is held. A court-house, called Union-hall, has been built in the new street called Union Street. The Clink liberty is under the jurisdiction of the bishop of Winchester. Court-leets are also kept at Lambeth, Bermondsey, and Rotherhithe, districts adjoining to the Borough. The Marshalsea prison is the county jail for felons, and the admiralty jail for pirates. In this quarter is also the King's Bench prison, the rules of which are above two miles in circuit, and comprise the greatest part of St. George's Fields. Here was committed Henry, prince of Wales, by the spirited and honest judge Gascoigne. In this prison, the allowance being better than that of the common prisons, many debtors remove themselves hither by habeas corpus. Southwark is first mentioned in history on occasion of earl Godwin's sailing up the river to attack the royal navy of fifty ships lying before the palace of Westminster, in 1052, when he went ad Suthweorce,' and stayed there till the return of the tide. Southwark consists of the parishes of St. Olave, St. Saviour, St. George, and St. Thomas. That of Christ Church is in Surry. The principal church in Southwark is that of St. Saviour, formerly a priory of regular canons. Being dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and situated near the Thames, it was called St. Mary Over Ree, or Overy. It is built like a cathedral, with three aisles from east to west, and a cross aisle. It is the largest parish church in England, the three aisles measuring 269 feet in length, and the cross aisle 109 feet. The height within is forty-seven feet, and it has a tower with four spires 150 feet high. It has lately been extensively repaired. Near St. George's church stood the magnificent palace of Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk, the deserved favorite of Henry VIII. After his death in 1545 it came into the king's hands, who established here a royal mint. It was then called Southwark place. Edward VI. once dined in it. The mint became a sanctuary for insolvent debtors, and at length the pest of the neighbourhood, by giving shelter to villains of every species; till parliament, by the stats. 8 & 9 W. III., 9 Geo. ., and 11 Geo. I., abolished its abused privileges. In the parish of Christ Church, near the water on Bankside, stood Paris garden, one of the ancient play-houses. Ben Jonson performed the part of Zulman in it. It was much frequented on Sundays. This profanation, Mr. Pennant ob serves, was at length fully punished by the dire accident which befel the spectators in 1582, when the scaffolding suddenly fell, and multitudes of people were killed or miserably maimed. The manor of Paris garden was then erected into a. parish, and a church founded under the name of Christ's. Beyond this place of amusement were the bear-garden and place for baiting of bulls, the British circi, those disgraces of English taste. This was then an amusement for persons of the first rank. Elizabeth caused even the French ambassadors to be diverted with these bloody spectacles. Near these scenes of cruel pastime were the bordello or stews, licensed by government. They were farmed out. Even a lord mayor did not disdain to rent them to the froes, or bawds of Flanders. Among other regulations no stewholder was to admit married women; nor were they to keep open their houses on Sundays; nor were they to admit any women who had on them the perilous infirmity of burning. These infamous houses were very properly suppressed by Henry VIII. Besides several alms-houses here are St. Thomas's and Guy's hospitals, two of the noblest endowments in England. The former was first erected in 1215 by Peter de Rupibus, bishop of Winchester, who endowed it with land to the amount of £343 a year. In 1551, after the citizens of London had purchased of Edward VI. the manor of Southwark and its appurtenances, of which this hospital was a part, they spent £1100 in repairing and enlarging the edifice, and admitted into it 260 patients; upon which the king in 1553 incorporated this hospital with those of Christ Church and Bridewell in London. The building being much decayed, three beautiful squares adorned with colonnades were erected by voluntary subscription in 1693, to which in 1732 the governors added a magnificent building, consisting of several wards. Near St. Thomas's stands Guy's Hospital, the most extensive charitable foundation that ever was established by one man in private life. The founder was Thomas Guy, a bookseller in Lombard Street, who lived to see the edifice roofed in; and at his death, in 1724, left £238,292 16s., including the expense of the building, to finish and endow it. See GUY. It was incorporated by charter from parliament, and the first governors were appointed in 1725. In St. George's Fields, west of the king's-bench prison, is the Magdalen, for the reception of penitent prostitutes; a little farther is situated the Asylum for orphan girls; and not far distant the Westminster Lying-in hospital. St. George's Fields are now covered with new buildings. At Lambeth the archbishops of Canterbury had a palace. According to Mr. Pennant it was in earlier times a manor royal; for the great Hardiknut died here in 1042, in the midst of the jollity of a wedding dinner; and here the usurper Harold II. snatched the crown and placed it on his own head. At that period it was part of the estate of Goda, wife to Walter earl of Mantes, and Eustace earl of Boulonge; who presented it to the church of Rochester, but reserved to herself the patronage. It became, in 1197, the property of the see of Canterbury by exchange. The building was improved by Langton, but was afterwards neg lected, and became ruinous. No pious zea' (says Mr. Pennant) restored the place, but the madness of priestly pride. Boniface, a wrathful and turbulent primate, elected in 1244, by way of expiation for a riot he had committed, rebuilt it with great magnificence. It was very highly improved by the munificent Henry Chichely, who was primate from 1414 to 1443. I lament to find so worthy a man the founder of a building so reproachful to his memory as the Lollard's Tower, at the expense of nearly £280. Neither Protestants nor Catholics should omit visiting this tower, the cruel prison of the unhappy followers of Wickliffe. The vast staples and rings to which they were chained, before they were brought to the stake, ought to make Protestants bless the hour which freed them from so bloody a religion.' During the civil wars of the seventeenth century, this palace suffered greatly; but at the restoration the whole was repaired by archbishop Juxton. The parish church of Lambeth, which is near the palace, has a plain tower; the architecture is Gothic. It has the figure of a pedlar and his dog painted in a window. The pedlar bequeathed the piece of ground called Pedlar's Acre to the parish. In the church-yard is the monument of the three great travellers named Tradescant. The charitable institutions in Southwark are extremely numerous and respectable; the principal are, the Magdalen Hospital, for Female Pe nitents; the School for the Indigent Blind; the Philanthropic Society, for the protection and reform of the orphans and children of convicted felons; the New Bethlehem Hospital for lunatics; the Surry Dispensary; many alms-houses for infirm old people; two free grammar-schools; the Royal Lancasterian Free-School, and a great number of other charities of less importance. The county prison, in Horsemonger Lane, is a commodious building, erected on the late Mr. Howard's plan; attached to which is a new and spacious sessions-house. The Dissenters also enjoy numerous commodious places of worship. In the Borough are also Union Hall, a public police-office, the Town-hall, and the Borough Compter, for the confinement of prisoners previous to their examination. The Surry Theatre is a neat edifice, and a much frequented place of amusement. An elegant cast-iron bridge of three arches, called Southwark Bridge, has been erected over the Thames from Bankside to Queen Street, in the city, which has greatly contributed to the improvement of that part of the borough. On the banks of the Thames are numerous iron, glass, and other manufactories, and many extensive wharfs, and other mercantile establishments, belonging to merchants of opulence. Southwark sends two members to parliament, who are returned by about 3200 of the inhabitants, paying scot and lot. The Bridge House, near St. Olave's Church, was formerly used as a storehouse for keeping the materials for repairing the bridge, but is now converted into offices belonging to the Bridge House estate. Adjoining the Bridge House yard formerly stood the city residence of the abbot of St. Augustines, in Canterbury, the site of which is now converted into a wharf. On the east side of Bridge Yard also stood the mansion of the abbot of Battle, in Sussex; the site whereof is now called Battle Bridge; opposite to this on the south were its spacious gardens, wherein was a labyrinth, or maze, the name of which is also preserved, though the place is covered with buildings. Near St. Saviour's church is the Borough market, for all kinds of provisions, but principally vegetables. SOUTHWELL, a market-town, in the county of Nottingham, situated on an eminence, on the banks of the river Greet, in a well-wooded country, and enclosed by an amphitheatre of hills. The town was formerly much more considerable than at present; but as the hamlets of East and West Thorpe, which are contiguous, appear to form part of it, and go under the name, Southwell has still the appearance of a pretty large place. It is divided into a civil and ecclesiastical portion. The former, called the Burgage or Burridge, comprehends all the space between the market-place and the river; the latter, the Prebendage, includes the collegiate church and its property. This church forms the only interesting object in the town, and has been long celebrated for the antiquity, beauty, and variety, of its architecture. It consists of a nave, with two aisles, two towers at the west end, a transept, a choir with aisles, and a chapter-house. The length from east to west is 306 feet, the width of the transept from north to south is 121 feet, and the breadth of the nave fifty-nine feet. The foundation of it is ascribed to Paulinus, archbishop of York, who was sent by pope Gregory, in 627, by the advice of St. Augustine, to establish Christianity in Britain. During a succession of ages it was liberally patronised by monarchs and nobles, and distinguished by the decrees of popes and prelates, until it shared the fate of other collegiate establishments in the reign of Henry VIII. It was in that reign declared by act of parliament the mother church of Nottinghamshire. In Edward VI.'s reign the chapter was dissolved and granted to the duke of Northumberland, but was restored by queen Mary. It suffered much in the civil wars, and has not yet recovered the damage done by Cromwell's troops, who converted it into a stable. The architecture is Saxon and Norman; the great mass of the building has sustained little alteration, except in some of the windows, whose Saxon arches have given place to the Gothic pointed style of the fourteenth century. There is a tradition that the oldest part, which is pure Saxon, and where the pillars are large, plain, and singularly massive, was built in the short reign of Harold; and, on the whole, there is little doubt that, excepting St. Augustine's at Canterbury, this is the oldest building now in existence in England. The entrance is by a Gothic gateway, from which there is a direct view of the west front. The chapter-house is a beautiful structure, and the arch of entrance forms a most striking object. Of the tombs in this church is a large alabaster one to archbishop Sandys. In the church-yard was a college for the chantry priests. The chantry itself has lately been taken down, and an excellent school erected on the ground. The VOL. XX. whole establishment of the college consists of sixteen prebendaries, six vicars-choral, one organist, and other officers. Two fellowships and two scholarships in St. John's College, Cambridge, are in the presentation of Southwell. They were founded by Dr. Reton, canon of Salisbury, in the time of Henry VIII. The archbishop of York had formerly a palace here, situated on the south side of the church yard; the ruins of it are still extensive, and, being overshadowed with ivy, form a great ornament to the place. The archiepiscopal parks were four in number, but these have been divided and enclosed since the destruction of the palace in the civil wars, during which Charles I. was often here. On the north side of the church-yard is a very convenient public walk, made in 1784. The county bridewell here is used as a prison for the various manors belonging to the archbishopric in the county. It was built in 1656 and 1787. This prison, called the Nottinghamshire house of correction, has also received considerable additions to its size during the last two or three years. It is under the immediate direction of county magistrates, who are appointed visiting justices, a resident governor, a surgeon, chaplain, and turnkeys. The adaptation of the structure, and the regulations and discipline, are highly and warmly spoken of. . Southwell possesses no trade of any consequence. The government of the town is divided between the clergy and the laity, the former ruling over the prebendage, and the latter over the Burgage. Its civil jurisdiction extends over twenty towns or villages; its ecclesiastical over twenty-eight. The civil administration is held at Southwell and Scroby, by the justices, who are nominated by the archbishop, but act under a commission from the crown. The chapter, in the person of the vicar-general, exercises all the episcopal functions except ordination and confirmation. Southwell is thought to have been a Roman station. Market on Saturday, and an annual fair on Whit-Monday. Fourteen miles north-east of Nottingham, and 132 N. N. W. of London. SOUTHWOLD, a sea-port, market-town, and bathing-place of Suffolk, is situated on the Blyth, and on a point of land almost surrounded by the sea; twenty miles south from Yarmouth, and 105 north-east from London. The church is a fine building, 143 feet long, and fifty-six wide; and the town is governed by two bailiffs, a recorder, and twelve aldermen, who hold their meetings in the Guildhall. It is a member of the port of Yarmouth, and its creek spreads to Dunwich and Walderswick. Here is a considerable trade in the herring and sprat fishing, in salt and old beer; and the town has risen to its present consequence from the decline of Dunwich. The harbour has been repaired and improved by the erection of two piers. The bay, called Solebay, is remarkable in history for an engagement in 1666, between the British and Dutch fleets, when the latter was defeated with the loss of nearly seventy ships, while the English lost only one. High water, at full and change, half past nine o'clock. This part of the coast is noted for the arrival and departure of 2 U |