[Footnote 3: One of the most specious arguments which have been advanced against the genuineness of the _Notes and Emendations_ is, that they agree in many instances with readings which had been suggested many years before the discovery of the MS. Notes. Of course it is obvious that, wherever the readings are right, they must do so; and these coincidences serve to satisfy us of the correctness of both.] * * * * * Notes. MR. PEPYS AND EAST LONDON TOPOGRAPHY, ETC. In "N. & Q." (Vol. i., p. 141.) there appeared an article upon the Isle of Dogs, &c., which spoke of the neglected topography of the east of London, and requested information on one or two points. Having felt much interested in this matter, I have endeavoured to obtain information by personal investigation, and send you the following from among a mass of Notes:-- 1. _Isle of Dogs._ In a map drawn up in 1588 by Robert Adams, engraved in 1738, this name is applied to an islet in the river Thames, still in part existing, at the south-west corner of the peninsula. From this spot the name appears to have extended to the entire marsh. 2. _Dick Shore_, Limehouse. This is now called _Duke Shore_, Fore Street. In Gascoyne's Map of Stepney, 1703, it is called _Dick Shoar_. Since that time _Dick_ has become a _Duke_. Mr. Pepys would find boats there now if he visited the spot. 3. Mr. Pepys, in his _Diary_ of Mar. 23, 1660, speaks of "the great breach," near Limehouse. The spot now forming the entrance to the City Canal or South Dock of the West India Dock Company was called "the breach," when the canal was formed. 4. July 31, 1665. Mr. Pepys speaks of the _Ferry_ in the Isle of Dogs. This ferry is named as a horse-ferry by Norden in the _Britanniae Speculum_, 1592 (MS.). The ferry is still used, but only seldom as a horse-ferry. 5. Oct. 9, 1661. Mr. P. mentions Captain Marshe's, at Limehouse, close by the lime-house. There is still standing there a large old brick house, which may be the same; and the lime-kiln yet exists, for, as Norden says, "ther is a kiln contynually used." 6. Sept. 22, 1665. Mr. P. speaks of a discovery made "in digging the late docke." This discovery consisted of nut trees, nuts, yew, ivy, &c., twelve feet below the surface. Johnson no doubt told him the truth. The same discovery was made in 1789, in digging the Brunswick Dock, also at Blackwall, and elsewhere in the neighbourhood. This very week (Aug. 25, 1853) I procured specimens of several kinds of wood, with land and freshwater shells, from as great a depth in an excavation at the West India Docks; the wood from a bed of peat, the shells from a bed of clay resting upon it. There exists an ancient house at the dock which Mr. P. visited, and which is probably the same. Other illustrations of the _Diary_ from this quarter might be adduced; let these, however, suffice as a specimen.