Ankographia [sic], sive convallium descriptio. In which are briefly but fully expounded the origine, course and insertion; extent, elevation and congruity of all the valleys and hills, brooks and rivers, (as an explanation of a new philosophico-chorographical chart) of East-Kent. Occasionally are interspers'd some transient remarks that relate to the natural history of the country, and to the military marks and signs of Cæsar's rout thro it, to his decisive battle in Kent ... / by Christopher Packe, M.D.

  • Packe, Christopher, 1686-1749.
Date:
1743
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Credit: Ankographia [sic], sive convallium descriptio. In which are briefly but fully expounded the origine, course and insertion; extent, elevation and congruity of all the valleys and hills, brooks and rivers, (as an explanation of a new philosophico-chorographical chart) of East-Kent. Occasionally are interspers'd some transient remarks that relate to the natural history of the country, and to the military marks and signs of Cæsar's rout thro it, to his decisive battle in Kent ... / by Christopher Packe, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ? ] ning thro’ them all: as they in my apprehenfion, laid the whole country down too Low upon the Line, which in Na¬ ture gradually Projells out more and more northerly, from the W\ to the E. quite up to the Foreland.. This is plain to all that fail on our North, and was always obferved by myfelf within land,- for as I crofs’d the country Dircdt from Sea to Sea, the North and South were never juft before and be¬ hind me, but oblique on the Left and the Right. The Reafon of this Error then I could guefs to be no other, than that the fetting the Axis of my Poles dire&ly Perpendicular inftead of declining it to the left, threw the Country down too much to the Eafl and the South : Wherefore, to Rectify this, I got made for the purpofe a large and very correct Azimuth Compafs, infcribed with every thing Suitable to my Defign, and fitted it with a Theodolite • in fuch a manner, that the Focus of the Glafs, at whatever Objecft it flood; gave the exadt Bearing of ir, even to the molt minute part of a degree, by a Moveable Index, which mark’d it upon the Circle of Degrees j to which the Outline Circle of the Chart was exactly Correfpondent. And having obtain’d leave to erc<5t a Scaffold upon the Top of the great Tower of our Cathedral, I plac’d the Inftrument in it’s Centre. Here I had fo Extenfive a View of almoft the whole Coun¬ try, that but very few places within my Circle efcaped my Sight 5 and thefe few that did, fuch as Dovor, Folkfione, Hythe, AJkford, Charing and Fever fleam, which lye below the Great Hills, were all reducible to a true Situation by well known Marks in my fight, that either directed me to place them without any danger of great Error, or gave me proper places for the taking of fre/h Bearings by the Inftru¬ ment. And I had the fatisfa&ion, as I fet my Compafs to the Magnetick Pole as above, to find all the Bearings fo . railed towards the Eafl and Depreffed towards the IVeJf D tha^ i