town in Somersetshire, 132 miles from London, is a well frequented town on the Parrot, between Bridgewater and Crewkerne. Here are lighters which are constantly employed in carrying coals, &c., from Bridgewater. Eels are taken in vast plenty out of the holes of the banks of the river in frosty weather.

Langrel shot, at sea, that consisting of two bars of iron joined by a chain or shackle, and having half a ball of iron fixed on each end; by means of which apparatus it does great execution among the enemy's rigging.