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NORTH and SOUTH, two headlands on the S. E. coast of England, and on the E. seaboard of the county of Kent: the first, or North Foreland, forms the N. E. angle of the county; it projects into the sea in the form of a bastion, and consists of chalky cliffs nearly 200 feet in height. A lighthouse of the first class, having a fixed light elevated 340 feet above the level of the sea, was erected on this promontory in 1688. The South Foreland, about 16 miles S. of the former, consists also of chalky cliffs, and has two lighthouses, with fixed lights, erected upon it, to warn ships coming from the S. of their approach to the Goodwin Sands. The North Foreland is made, by Act of Parof London. of London.

NATION, according to the Calvinistic view, the predestination before the founlife and others to eternal death. In the life and others to eternal death. In the authorized version of the Scriptures, the word foreordination does not appear at all, and the word foreordain does not occur in this sense, but ordain does: "And as as were ordained to eternal life believed" (Acts xiii: 48); "Who were of old ordained to this condemnation" (Jude 4, 13). It is on

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