The MEDUSA, returning to our own shores, anchored in the rolling ground off Harwich; and when Nelson wished to get to the Nore in her, the wind rendered it impossible to proceed there by the usual channel.

In haste to be at the Nore, remembering that he had been a tolerable pilot for the mouth of the Thames in his younger days, and thinking it necessary that he should know all that could be known of the navigation, he requested the maritime surveyor of the coast, Mr.Spence, to get him into the Swin by any channel; for neither the pilots which he had on board, nor the Harwich ones, would take charge of the ship.

No vessel drawing more than fourteen feet had ever before ventured over the Naze.

Mr.Spence, however, who had surveyed the channel, carried her safely through.

The channel has since been called Nelson's, though he himself wished it to be named after the MEDUSA: his name needed no new memorial.
Nelson's eye was upon Flushing.