[Picture: A wharf]
Is a landing place by the side of a river, for the convenience of boats,
barges, or ships. At these wharfs many casks of fruit, plums, currants,
figs, oranges, and lemons, are brought on shore, to be taken away in
carts to grocers, fruiterers, and orange-merchants. It is the business
of a merchant to bring over these things for our use, and for which we
are obliged to him. The West and East India Docks receive now, most of
the shipping used to and from those countries, and are considered more
secure from robberies, than the open wharfs by the sides of the river
Thames used to be.