Note 3 — Chapter I

Footnote 3: The editor glosses this variously spelt and etymologically puzzling word “landing-stage.” But unless I mistake, a “kempshott,” “campshed,” or “campshedding” is not a landing-stage (though it helps to make one) so much as a river-wall of stakes and planks, put to guard the bank against floods, the wash of barges, &c.