a town of Kent, one of the cinque ports, and which has the title of an earldom. It consists of about 1500 houses, most of them old, and built with wood, though there are a few new ones built with brick and flints. It has three long narrow streets paved, and thirty cross-street or alleys, with about 6000 inhabitants, but no particular factory. The town is walled round, and also fortified with ditches and ramparts; but the walls are much decayed, on account of the harbour being so choked up with sand that a ship of 100 tons burthen cannot get in. E. Long. 1. 20. N. Lat. 51. 20.

SANDWICH Island, one of those lately discovered in the South Sea, lying near New Ireland. No particulars concerning it are known, but that it is inhabited by woolly-headed negroes.