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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    were in the narrowed place about one and a half, dn the wider about two, and at the wided about four Miles over, retired by Degrees fo far ,* that in venerable Bede’s time, being reduced to three furlongs width at the Ferry at Sarr, they were then called the JVantfum or Deficient Water. ]Vaa!f..^ But fince the Channel of the Wantfum has been quite eva¬ cuated (and it is dill to be plainly trac’d dry thro’ almod the whole Level) the Nethergong Stream on the one hand, which in the antient date of the Country enter’d the Portus Interi¬ or at Chidlet-Marfh fide, has fallen down thro’ the mar fines into the North-Sea, about a mile and half E. of Reculver* and the River Stour on the other, which enter’d the Exte¬ rior under Stourmouth, has made it’s way down into the Sea at Sandwich-bayand thefe two dreams Lofing their own names, were called the Wantfum; which I now didioguidi from the two Rivers that belonged to it, into the Stour- Want¬ fum, and the NethergongWantfum. Now the Didance be¬ tween thefe two dreams, which is fomething better than a mile, leaves the land as yet a Peninfula,* but an Artificial Cut called the Mile-dream, which was made for the benefit of Sewing the Nethergong into the Stour ,* over which is a Bridge in the road to Sarr ,* which goes almod drait, fome- times near, fometimes acrofs the dry Channel of the old Wantfum: This quite Inclofes Thanet. So that the Idand, which formerly was cut off from us by the Entire Portus Sandvicenfis, and was then all High-lands, is now made fo only by the Stour-Wantfum on the S. the Mile-dream on the S. W. and the Neihergong-Wantfum on the W. the Red of the Idand looks to the North and the Ead Seas as heretofore. The Shape of this Idand is a long Oval, not very irre- its shape, gular. The Point at Sarr where the two Seas met at S\ [V. is it*s Acute, and the Northern and Eadern parts are it’s E Ob-