Picturesque views, on the River Medway, from the Nore to the vicinity of its source in Sussex : with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its neighbourhood . ed chiefly forthe repair of fuch as had met with any fud-den accident. The yard is under the infpec-tion of the commiffioner of the navy refidingat Chatham; from which place the principalfupply of water for the ufe of this garrifon,was formerly received j but that expencehas within a few years been much reducedby the conflruftion of a deep well, withinhalf a mile of the town. This well is workedby horizontal whee
Picturesque views, on the River Medway, from the Nore to the vicinity of its source in Sussex : with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its neighbourhood . ed chiefly forthe repair of fuch as had met with any fud-den accident. The yard is under the infpec-tion of the commiffioner of the navy refidingat Chatham; from which place the principalfupply of water for the ufe of this garrifon,was formerly received j but that expencehas within a few years been much reducedby the conflruftion of a deep well, withinhalf a mile of the town. This well is workedby horizontal wheels that will raife, with afmart breeze of wind, two tons of waterwithin the hour; a fupply thought fufficientfor the wants of the place, and fuch as hasmade only one vefTel necefTary for bringingwater to Sheernefs, and even that is nowconfidered rather as a job than matter ofneceflity. The old fhips of war ftationed here aretermed Water Breakers, from their breaking the ( 9 ) the violence of the tides. The hulks areoccupied by fixty or feventy families, andchimnies of brick are raifed from the lowergun-deck, which give them the whimficalappearance of a floating-town. B SECTION. ^ <3 II SECTION IL XhE ifle of Shepey, with which thecourfe of our river and fubje6l have thus con-ne6led us, was called by the Saxons Sceapige,or Ovinia, that is, the Ifland of Sheep, fromthe number of Iheep continually feeding onit: it is about thirteen miles in length, andnear fix at its greateft breadth. The cliffsare about fix miles in length, the higheft ofwhich is above the village of Minder, wherethey are not lefs than thirty yards in perpen-dicular height} they confift of clay, and,being conftantly walhed at their bafes by thetides, are continually falling upon the fliore 5and a whole acre is faid at once to have fallenupon the beach below, leaving the corn en-tire on the furface, which, in that fituation,has grown to maturity, and been reaped withfmall lofs to the owner. B 2 Thb ( 12 ) The m
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