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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    f'l'f ] - f .^1 *o the Country; one at Wingham, the other under Barham Down ; but if you take the Main Centrall Vale in which the Stour runs with it’s Immediate apparatus without thefe Eion^ gations or ProccfTes for the/V-oper Stour-dale, it is of a much left Extent in it’s width, and of a more Regular form. In the Antient State of the country, the Stour came into the Sea or Portus Sandvicenfis, fome-where betwixt Chiftiet and Stour-mouth • and it was feparated on one fide from the Nethergong; and on the other from the Little-Stour by the Two low points of land that lye under Up-ftreet and Grave., already mention’d. So that all that is contained between the Ridges of the two Hills that come from thefe two points* quite thro’ their Progrefs up to their main Hills, is the/Vfl- per Stour-Dale, On the JV. IV, and the N. thefe Hills have been already deferibed, viz. from Chiftiet up to the Bough- ton hills, as it’s boundaries from the Nethergong; and from the Boughton hills to Eaftwell-Park as it’s boundary from the Feverfham Divifion of the Citerior Region of the Coun¬ try; fo thatonthe Weft fide of theStour, Ihavenow nothing more to do, than to take notice of two or three Remarkable Anaftomofes or Inosculations : One is in the Receiver Di¬ vifion, another in the Stour-Dale at Shottington, and the laft and Greateft: of all is that of the whole Dale with the Afhford Vale. It muft be obferved, that it is the method of Nature to/;/- ofculate all it’s Capillary or Extreme vefiels by Intermixing or Indenting them very artificially with one another every where at their rife on the Hills; infomuch that at a little diftance from their originals, without very clofe and repeated Obfervations you can fcarce tell which belongs to which ; and upon the very Spot it is fo Infenfihly done, that you can’t perceive where the feveral Capillaries begin and depart ;from one another; for from the Greater Ledges of the hills * \ InofcuUtlonj thfir AWfirfv