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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    Part ef the Stour- Vale. I. Swcrdlmg Procefs. If. Ft tig f. Barba rr-Down Proofs* [ do ] you mufl go along the Ridge of the Down-Hills to Weft- Wood aforefaid. Now altho’ this Weftern boundary, as I have before ob- ferved, borrows this Inner Portion from the Stour-dale al¬ ready defcribed; Yet, in as much as the Three Projections or Prqcesses of Chartham-Downs, Barham-Downs, and the Dovor Valley do Interfedl this Whole country Acrofs from Sham’sford to Dovor, and cut it off from Middle-Eaft-Kent • they may be looked upon in one view as the entire, Natural limits of Uphill-Eaft-Kent on the IP. and the Sfo far. But it’s Southern boundary is farther extended by the Down- Hills to the Cliffs at Caldham above Folkftone. On the £. thefe Cliffs terminate this Region up as far as to Dovor Cliffs; for here it meets with it’s Northern boundary, which is the Ridge of the Three Projecting Vallies as above. Ta thefe Three Divifions then all the Vallies of this Extenfive country, Syftematically belong. As for the Firft, viz* all that Diftrict which belongs to the Chartkam and Swerdling Inland Procefs, I fhall need to fay nothing here, becaufe it has been already defcribed as a part of the proper Stour-dale. I therefore pals on to the Se¬ cond. The Great Valley of the Little Stour keeps it’s courle direct, IP. above Bridge, on to the Hills, as before defcribed. It is a long, ftrait, Deep, fingle Valley, furnifhed only with fhort Lateralis on each fide. It comes by Hard’fs, Stelling and Rhode Minis $ partly from the Extremities of the great Rxpanfion of the Nailbourn Capillaries, and partly from the Ridge of the Hill at Weft-Wood, above Limidge Green • where it Inofculates the whole Group of it’s own Extremities remarkably, with thofe of the Stouting branch of the Afti- ford Vale. But at Bridge it Receives the Large Procefs from Barham, before defcribed, that brings away the Little Stour from