in Kent, the common way from the main land into the isle of Sheppey; where a cable of about 140 fathoms in length, fastened at each end across the water, serves to get the boat over by hand. For the maintenance of this ferry and keeping up the highway leading to it through the marshes for above one mile in length, and for supporting a wall against the sea, the land occupiers tax themselves yearly one penny per acre for fresh marsh land, and one penny for every 10 acres of salt marsh land. Here is a house for the ferry keeper, who is obliged to take all travellers over free, except on these four days, viz. Palm Monday, Whit-Monday, St James's day, and Michaelmas day, when a horseman pays two pence, and a footman one penny. But on Sunday, or after eight o'clock at night, the ferry-keeper demands sixpence of every horseman, and two pence of every footman, whether strangers or the land occupiers.