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

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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$nt% rallies. X. t 3° ] tends itfelf /V. towards Hern-bay, it gradually diminilhes to two Miles, and fo on to nothing, or to a point at the Reculvers. I call it a Vale, becaufe it is an entire parcel of the Country, that is ferved all over it with it’s own Waters, independent on either the Waters of thzNethergdng or theStour* and by the name of it’s principal or rather it’s only Village, 1 denominate the Vale. It is bounded on the N. by the Sea,- on the W. by the Northern part of the Boughton Hills, as far as to Boffenden^ on the S', and S'. E. by the Ridge Hill of the Stour-Dale, going by Boffenden, Blean- Common, Wild-Court, Child’s Foreftall and Belting to Re* culver. It confifts of Five Groups of Vallies, which traverfe the country from the Hills to the Sea, The Firft, which is the only very confiderable one, is that at Swakely orSwalecliff the Mouth oi the Swale - which is pro¬ perly formed between this place and the Lands-end of Shepey. . This Valley has Two large branches; the Firft goes out of a fmall Marfh by the Church, and after having fent off* a branch between Rayham and Broad - Street to Rake’s-Hill above Sea-Salter, (which is a part of the Boughton-Hills,-) it pro¬ ceeds with it’s main body between Rayham and Clows, thro’ Dane-Stroud, by two or three branches, up to Bough- ton-hill at Boffenden-, fending off it’s Laterall vallies on each fide, for the Formation of the Ridges of both the Stour-dale and the Bonghton-hills. It’s whole Cotirfe is fix miles up¬ on the line. The Other Branch leaves the fame Marfh Ea'ftward, and by Rotten-Green, goes up to the Ridge of the Stour-dale at Timber-Hill $ the Vale being here but be¬ tween twro and three miles over. rI he Second Group comes out of the Leffer marfh be¬ tween Studhill and Hampton • and in two fmall branches difperfe? itfelf about a Mile and a half wide, and two Miles Jong, up to the Pvidge of the fame hill about Blean-Gate. The \$

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