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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    / [ ] that it perfectly anfwer’d the Image of the country, as it lay in my Conception, And this is the Copy that I had Fin idled fo nearly as to intend it for the Publick. But when, for reafons above given, I thought even This not Compleat enough to pleafe myfelf, and therefore not fit to praefent to my Subfcribersj and found alfo that fome Gentle-? men, for whole opinion I have a great Deference, thought it was better to follow the General Cuftom of Maps, and let my Poles direB in the Zenith and Nadir -y In my New and Lafl Copy, I alter’d my fcheme fo far as to make my Cardinal Lines exactly Perpendicular and Horizontal; but yet I kept the Situation of all things to the Bearings of the 'Magnetick Pole ,* and this ftill elevates the Country to a good degree of the Northerly Projection, and thereby keeps me clear of the main and Original fault which I intended to Re&ify. In fine, all that my Reader has to do in finding the Bearing of any place according to the true Pole, is to . allow fourteen degrees and a half more, i. e. one Point of the Compafs and near a quarter, on the Right hand from the North to the South; and to the Left, from South to North5 and then he will be fatisfied. So that although I fliould have been miftaken about the proper Declination of the Magnetick Pole from the True (and I have been fince inform’d that it has been at different times at 20° io'. 130 jo, and once but 130.) yet the allowance here mentioned -reduces all to the True Pole of the World. Thefe things being In General Praemifed -y let my Cour¬ teous Reader firfl obferve how Gracefully two Iflands lay,* One on each fide, to our Continent; for fo, in Refped to them, Ifhall call our Main-land through this wholeDifcourfe. •itiifipcy f- The Ifle of Shepey, of which I fhall have but little to fay, Fills the Lefc hand, or N. IP. Corner of the Chart. This, ,&s it is out of the Tour of my Bufinefs, had no more con- m cern