in geography, a cape or promontory on the eastern coast of Yorkshire, five miles east of Burlington, and 216 from London. E. Long. 20°. N. Lat. 54°. 15.—This was the Fleamburg of the Saxons; so called, as some think, from the lights made on it to direct the landing of Ida, who in 547 joined his countrymen in these parts with a large reinforcement from Germany, and founded the kingdom of Northumberland. In the time of Edward the Confessor, Flamborough was one of the manors of Harold, Earl of the West Saxons, afterwards king of England. On his death, the Conqueror gave it to Hugh Lupus; who, in perpetual alms, bestowed it on the monastery of Whitby.—The town is on the north side; and consists of about 150 small houses, entirely inhabited by fishermen; few of whom, as is said, die in their beds, but meet their fate in the element they are so conversant in. The cliffs of the Head are of a tremendous height and amazing grandeur. Beneath are several vast caverns; some closed at the end, others pervious, formed with a natural arch. In some places the rocks are inflated, and of a pyramidal figure, soaring up to a vast height. The bases of most are solid, but in some pierced through and arched. The colour