FORELAND-SOUTH, (Kent) a head of land forming the E. point of the Kentish shore, and called South, in respect to its
bearing from the other Foreland, which is about 6 m. to the N. Its situation is of great security to the Downs, the road
bet. both, which would be a very wild and dangerous road for ships, did not this point break the sea off, which would
otherwise come rolling up from the W. to the Flats, or bank of sands, which, for 3 leagues together, and at about a league
or league and 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 E. S. and S. W. make the Downs accounted a good road, except when the wind blows excessive
hard from S. E. E. by N. or E.N.E. when ships in the downs are drove from their anchors, and often run ashore, or are
forced on the sands, or into Sandwich bay, or Ramsgate pier.