LANDGUARD FORT seems to belong to Suffolk, but is in the limits of Essex, and has a fine prospect of the coasts of both counties. It was erected, and is maintained, for the defence of the port of Harwich over against it; for it commands the entry of it from the sea up the Maningtree water, and will reach any ship that goes in or out. It is placed on a point of land so surrounded with the sea at high water, that it looks like a little island at least one mile from the shore. The making its foundation solid enough for so good a fortification cost many years labour and a prodigious expence. It was built in the reign of King James I. Here is a small garrison, with a governor, and a platform of guns.