_Dick Shore._--Your correspondent, J.T. HAMMACK, is not quite correct in
stating, No. 9., p. 141., that the modern maps present no trace of the
locality of "_Dick Shoare_," mentioned in the Pepysian _Diary_. In one
of Smith's maps, now before me, of the date of 1806, I find "Duke Shore
Stairs," not far from the great turn of the river southward, opposite to
the Isle of Dogs. Whether the proper spelling to be Dick, Dyke, Dock,
Dog, or Duke, I leave to your readers to determine; but I presume there
can be no doubt as to the identity of the place. As the origin of the
name of "Isle of Doggs," according to the Pepysian orthography, is said
to be still underdetermined; may it not be connected with the modern
term DOCKS? We are daily familiarised to worse corruptions. _Docks_ are
excavations, large or small, formed by the operation of digging, in
Dutch called _Dóken_.