a sea-port town of Cumberland, with a market on Thursdays, and one fair on August 1st for merchandise and toys. It is seated on a creek of the sea, on the north end of a great berg or hill, washed by the tide of flood on the west side, where there is a large rock or quarry of hard white stone, which gives name to the place, and which, with the help of a strong stone-wall, secures the harbour, into which small barks may enter. It is lately much improved in its buildings, and noted for its trade in pit-coal and salt; there being near it a prodigious coal-mine, which runs a considerable way under the sea. They have a customhouse here; and they carry on a good trade to Ireland, Scotland, Chester, Bristol, and other parts. It is 10 miles south-west of Cockermouth, and 289 north-west of London. W. Long. 3. 6. N. Lat. 54. 30.

WILLENNESS, WHITENESS, the quality which denominates or constitutes a body white.