COQUET-ISLE, (Northumberland) bet. Seaton and Aylmouth, which takes name from the r. had anciently both a castle and mon.
but the soil is so barren, that, except a few hutts for the diggers of sea-coal, it has only one house. Such flocks of
wild fowl continually harbour here, that sometimes it is impossible to walk far on it, without treading on their eggs,
which the fishermen sell to the neighbourhood; but the air, by reason of the frequent fogs here, is very unhealthy; and it
is often troubled with storms.