a town of Kent, between Dover and Hythe, 72 miles from London, appears to have been a very ancient place, from the Roman coins and British bricks often found in it. Stillington and Tanner take it for the Lapis Tituli of Nennius. It was burnt by Earl Godwin, and by the French in the reign of Edward III. It had five churches, now reduced to one. It is a member of the town and port of Dover: and has a weekly market and an annual fair. It is chiefly noted for the multitude of fishing-boats that belong to its harbour, which are employed in the season in catching mackerel for London; to which they are carried by the mackerel boats of London and Barking. About Michaelmas, the Folkestone barks, with others for Sussex, go away to the Suffolk and Norfolk coasts, to catch herrings for the merchants of Yarmouth and Leedestoff.—Folkestone gives the title of Viscount to William Henry Bouvierie, whose grandfather, Jacob, was so created in 1747. It has been observed of some hills in this neighbourhood, that they have visibly sunk and grown lower within memory.