Thanet, Isle Of, forms the NE. corner of Kent, from the mainland of which it is separated by the Stour and the rivulet Nethergong; on its shores, washed by the North Sea, stand the popular watering-places, Ramsgate, Margate, and Broadstairs; the north-eastern extremity, the North Foreland, is crowned by a lighthouse.
Population (circa 1900) given as 58,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Thane * Thasos