or Foreness, in Navigation, a point of land jutting out into the sea.

North Foreland, in the isle of Thanet, Kent, of which it is the N. E. point, is the promontory ascer- tained by act of parliament to be the most southern part of the port of London, which is thereby extended N. in a right line to the point called the Nase on the coast of Essex, and forms what is properly called the Mouth of the Thames. A sea-mark was erected here by the Trinity-house corporation at the public expence, which is a round brick tower, near 80 feet high. The sea gains so much upon the land here by the winds at S. W. that within the memory of some that are living about 30 acres of land have been lost in one place. All vessels that pass on the south side of this head-land are said to enter the Channel, which is the name for the narrow sea between England and France; and all the towns or harbours between London and this place, whe- ther on the Kentish or Essex shore, are called members of the port of London.

South Foreland, in Kent, a head-land forming the east point of the Kentish shore; and called South, in respect to its bearing from the other Foreland, which is about six miles to the north. Its situation is of great security to the Downs, the road between both, which would be a very dangerous road for ships, did not this point break the sea off, that would otherwise come rolling up from the west to the Flats or banks of sand, which for three leagues together, and at about a league or a league and a half from the shore, run parallel with it, and are dry at low water; so that these two capes breaking all the force of the sea on the S. E. and S. W. make the Downs accounted a good road, except when the wind blows excessively hard from S. E., E. by N., or E. N. E., when ships in the Downs are driven from their anchors, and often run ashore, or are forced on the sands, or into Sandwich bay or Ramsgate pier.