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 streets or alleys, with about 6000 inhabitants, but no particular manufacture. The town is walled round, and also fortified with ditches and ramparts; but the walls are much decayed, on account of the harbour being choked up with sand that a ship of 100 tons burthen cannot get in. E. Long. 1° 20'. N. Lat. 51° 20'.