feet deep at the mouth of this harbour, a RED FLAG is hoisted, as a notice to the shipping outside, but it is removed with the ebbing of the tide below that depth. ROCHESTER is on the Medway, in the vicinity to CHATHAM. Its importance arises from the manufactures and commerce necessarily incident to its connexion with so great a naval station. MARGATE (a member of the port of Dover, to which it is subject in matters of civil jurisdiction) has a pier maintained by a duty paid on all exports and imports. Its harbour is dry at low water. Corn is the principal article of commerce. 52 Geo. III. c. 186. The master of every vessel passing from port to port within this realm, who shall take on board or discharge within the harbour of Margate, (or the bay adjoining,) shall pay "LASTAGE," on every quarter of corn, tares, or seeds of every denomination, at the rate of, per quarter .... s. d. And for all other goods, and all baggage, parcels, and passengers) soladen or unladen, upon the freight or fare thereof, 09 “POUNDAGE" of, in the pound ... If the vessel be coming from or going to foreign parts, (Ireland excepted,) the charges to be doubled. Every passenger landing from or embarking in any ship, hoy, packet, or other vessel carrying passengers for hire, within the harbour or bay and shore within the parish of St. John, whether such vessel belong to the town or harbour of Mar-2 0 gate or not, (patients going to or coming from the Infirmary, and pleasure boats without decks, excepted,) shall pay for every passage to or from the town or harbour, the sum of .... Which is hereby required to be received by the master of the vessel before departure, and shall be by such master paid over, within seven days, to the treasurer of the Pier Company. Masters of vessels to be allowed 1s. 6d. in the pound, upon Every vessel entering the harbour for SHELTER or PLEASURE For every seven days after twenty-one, per ton. And for British and foreign shipping respectively, per ton burthen The duty on every vessel taking in BALLAST, and not having unloaded here, to pay per ton.... There shall be paid also for WHEAT, per quarter. For oats..... Hops, per bag... 0 6 1 6604 2 9966 0003 And so on for dry goods in proportion. For a four-wheeled carriage.. 21 2720 0 6 2 6 0 3 RAMSGATE has a capacious harbour, comprehending about forty-five acres of ground, protected by stupendous piers, and dis tinguished by a lighthouse. Duties for the support of this harbour were first collected under the authority of statute 32 Geo. III. c. 74. which statute was amended by 37 Geo. III. c. 86. The 55 Geo. III. c. 84. however, reciting the inadequacy of the duties to keep the harbour in its improved state, provides for the imposition of additional rates and duties to those levied under the authority of the former acts, not exceeding a certain rate, at the discretion of certain trustees. The length and intricacy of this statute, as well as the uncertainty of the duties arising from this very discretionary power given by it, are sufficient reasons for not abstracting it very copiously; but the substance of the provisions and exceptions of these statutes, in a general view of them, are as follows: All vessels passing through THE DOWNS, whether navigating on the east or the west side of the GOODWIN SANDS, of between 20 and 300 tons burthen, to pay 2d. per ton; each chaldron of coal, and every ton of stones, 3d. to 34d. per ton, and other duties in proportion. The last statute authorizes the trustees to impose additional rates or duties, (on giving fourteen days' previous notice in the London Gazette,) viz. on every foreign ship, of not exceeding 3d. for each ton, whether laden or in ballast, passing by or to the harbour of Ramsgate, not having a receipt testifying the payment of the same in respect thereof; and that so often as such foreign vessel shall so pass, &c. No outward-bound vessels (the places of whose destinations are to or by the said harbour) to be cleared at the office of customs on such voyage; nor inward-bound, which shall have sailed past or gone into said harbour, to be allowed to enter at said office without such certificate. Collector of said duties empowered to enter into and admeasure vessels. TRANSPORTS, SO long as they continue in the service, to pay only twice in any one year. All attempts to evade payment of the duties, subject to a penalty of paying double the duty due. Prohibitions.-GUNPOWDER on board, without notice to the harbourmaster, (except in transports and vessels in the service of the Ordnance, Customs, Ercise, and Post Office,) prohibited under a penalty of £20. Discharging fire-arms within the harbour, prohibited under a penalty of £5. Vessels not to be graved or breamed afloat in said harbour, under a penalty not exceeding £20. SCOTLAND. ABERDEEN, on the east coast of Scotland, is reckoned the third town of that kingdom in point of importance. Its harbour, at the mouth of the river Dee, is defended by a new stone pier, 1200 feet in length. Its exports of linens, calicoes, and threads to Germany and the Baltic, are very considerable; and the Greenland whale fishery is carried on to some extent here. DUMFRIES, on the south-west coast of Scotland, eight miles from the mouth of the river Nid, in Solway Frith, is sixty-four miles from the capital, Edinburgh; has a tolerably good harbour, but not an extensive commerce. GRANGEMOUTH is situate in Stirlingshire, to the south of Perthshire, and on the western side of Scotland. Being fixed at the junction of the great canal with the aforesaid river, and at not more than about forty miles from the capital, it is a place of some trade. L TABLE showing the Time of HIGH WATER at different places. Having concluded our information respecting the ports and harbours of the United Kingdom, it is presumed the following statement of the time of high water at the PRINCIPAL PORTS of EUROPE and AMERICA, and particularly of the BRITISH and IRISH Coasts, will not be unacceptable, particularly to those captains who have not been at the respective ports before. The mode of calculation is to find by the Nautical or other Almanac the time of high water at London Bridge, and add or subtract the amount set down in the column of figures. Required the time of high water at Rotterdam, May 1, 1830 :— High water by the Almanac at London Bridge...5 min. past 9 Add... Note.-The flowing and ebbing of the tides in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas are so inconsiderable as not to require notice. Names of Places. Abbeville.. Aberdeen Aberdovey Aberistwith Achill Head Agnes (St.) Air Point.. Aix Island. H. M .France.. Sub. 4 0 Bally Shannon ... ..Wales ..Add 5 5 Baltimore Alban's Head (St.)... England. Add 5 5 Barmouth Alban's (St.).. ..... Jersey... Sub. 1 55 Barnstable Bar ... .Ditto Wales Add 5 35 .England. Add 3 25 .Eng. Ch. Add 1 20 .England. Sub. 3 55 .Spain Add 2 20 .France.. Add 1 5 .. .America. Add 3 35 Beachy on the Shore . England. Sub. 4 40 Anglesea Sub. 3 55 Bee's Head (St.). Andrew's Bay (St.) ..Scotland. Sub. 0 10 Belle Isle Antwerp.. Anvers.. Archangel ... .France Add 3 35 Blackwall .. ... ......Ditto Archangel River ent.. Ditto Add 4 5 Block Island .Hud. Bay Sub. 2 25 ..Wales Sub. 4 10 .England. Sub. 3 25 ..Ireland.. Sub. 3 55 Bay of B. Add 0 35 Isle of W. Sub. 2 45 ..Norway. Sub. 0 55 ...Atl. Oce. Add 4 35 England. Sub. 0 10 to).. Spain.. ... ... Add 0 50 Ditto Add 2 5 RThames Sub. 0 30 England. Add 3 35 .Ireland.. Add 1 15 Arklow Arran Island. Arundel.. Augustine (St.). .Ireland Add 5 50 Blythe Sand .Scotland. Sub. 3 10 Bolt Head..... England. Sub. 5 5 Borkum Island......Holland. Sub. 2 55 20, Boulogne........... France..Sub. 3 55 Bourdeaux. Ballingskellings.....Ireland.. Add 0 . Ireland.. Add 1 5 ... .N. Sea.. Add 1 5 Coutance ...Ditto ... Add 4 20 Dartmouth.. Add 4 20 Deal.. ...... Difference of H. M. .France.. Add 3 35 .Is. of W. Sub. 4 10 ..Scotland. Sub. 2 40 .England. Add 4 20 ...Ireland Add 0 35 .W. Sea.. Add 1 50 ...Germany sub. 1 25 ..England. Add 3 45 .... ... Sub. 3 25 .Holland. Sub. 0 25 David's Head (St.) .... ........ ..... ... .England. Sub. 3 9 ... ...Scotland. Sub 0 10 .Ireland.. Add 2 5 England. Sub. 3 34 France Sub. 2 40 .Is. of W. Sub. 5 29 ....Ditto... Sub. 5 55 Carmarthen Harbour. Wales.. Add 4 5 Dursey Island.......Ireland.. Add 1 5 ..Scotland Sub. 0 55 ..Ireland.. Sub. 3 55 East India Dock Gates Blackwall Sub. 0 30 .America. Sub. 3 40 Eddystone ..Eng. Ch. Add 5 35 Edinburgh.. .Eng. Ch. Add 3 25 Catherine's Point (St.)Is. of W. Sub. 5 55 Elbe Riv. (red buoy). Germany Sub. 2 25 Catness.... America. Add 4 35 Eyder River (entrance) Germany Sub. 2 25 .France Add 5 5 Fair Head.. Chichester Harbour. Ditto Sub. 2 55 Falmouth.. Clear (Cape).. .... Churchill (Cape) Hud. Bay Add 4 55 Fayal Road. Cockspar Cod (Cape). Conway. .Ditto .Wales... Sub. 4 10 Ferriters Copeland Island.... .Ireland.. Sub. 3 55 Fifeness. .... Add 2 0 Finisterre (Cape) ....Ireland.. Sub 5 25 .N. Sea.. Add 1 35 .England. Add 3 20 .Azores..Sub. 0 10 ...America. Sub. 4 10 .. France..Sub. 3 55 Spain Add 0 35 ..Ireland.. Add 1 5 ..Scotland. Add 2 5 .... ... .England. Add 2 5 Spain... Add 0 35 .Lapland. Sub. 0 10 Names of Places. Difference of Names of Places. H. M Flamborough Head..England. Add 2 5 Holland's Hook ..... ...... Brit. Ch. Add 4 15 Horn Point. England. Sub. 3 25 Hosely Bay ...N. Sea.. Add 0 35 Hull..... ..... Difference 01 H. M. .Holland. Add 0 35 Flatholme Isle Folkstone Foreland (North) . Ditto Sub. 3 10 Ice Cove .Eng. Ch. Add 3 35 John's (St.).........Newfoun. Add 3 35 Gallicia (Co. of).....Spain... Add 0 35 Jutland (County of)..Denmark Sub. 2 25 Galloper Sand..... ..R. Tham. Sub. 1 40 Galway Bay ...Ireland.. Add 2 5 Kenmare River......Ireland.. Add 1 5 Galloway (Mull of)... Scotland. Sub. 3 10 Kennebeck .America. Sub. 0 55 Kentish Knock. Goodwin Sands(Bk.of) Downs.. Sub. 1 0 Kinnaird's Head .N. Sea. Sub. 0 55 Kirkcudbright. Gowan's Head (St.).. Wales... Add 3 5 Hasborough. Henlopen (Cape) Holyhead Bay. Honfleur .America. Sub. 3 40 .Holland. Add 5 5 .Portugal Sub. 0 25 ...Shetland. Sub.4 55 .England. Sub. 3 10 ..Ditto France.. Sub. 3 25 Langstone Harbour...Ditto ... Add 2 5 Sub. 2 40 Spain Add 0 35 Leith Pier..........Scotland. Add 0 40 .Holland. Sub. 5 25 LewisIslands (Butt .Ditto Add 4 5 Loize River (entrance) France.. Add 0 35 .Ditto Add 5 15 Lowestoff (in Shore).. England. Sub. 5 25 ..Brit. Ch. Add 4 15 Lowestoff Roads. .....Wales Sub. 4 25 Lundy Island Holy Island Harbour . England. Add 0 5 Lyme Regis |