or Landgravate, the office, authority, jurisdiction, or territory, of a landgrave.

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 defense of the port of Harwich over against it; for it commands the entry of it from the sea up the Manning-tree 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 expense. It was built in the reign of King James I., when it was a much more considerable fortification than now, having four bastions mounted with 60 very large guns, particularly those on the royal battery, which would throw a 28 pound ball over Harwich. Here is a small garrison, with a governor, and a platform of guns. This fort is refitted and greatly enlarged for the convenience of the officers of ordnance, engineers, and matroos; and a barrack built for the soldiers.