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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    [ *7 ] I and by the Stone Hills which run helozv almofl Parallel to the other, on thej1. from Boughton Malherb by Chart and Allington to the Folkftone Cliffs at Cock Point, which is juft under the beginning of the Down-Hills under Caldham. But altho5 all this feems at firft fight to be but One Country, inclofed within thefe General Hills ; yet in as much as the Eaftern part of it is ferved intirely by it’s own Waters, without any communication with the other, I call it pro¬ perly theAfhford Vale, no farther than where the River Stour pofleffes it ,• fo that the Weftern bounds of this Vale are made by a little, Gentle, rifing hill, that goes acrofs from the Down to the Stone-hills between Lenham and Bough- ton ; for all over that Tradt of above two miles wide, the Exterior Brooks of the Stour, and thofe of the Leeds- Caftle branch of the Medway part from one another. And in like manner, the Raftern limits are form’d by a gentle but More obvious Rifing between the fame ledges of the hills, eroding the Country from Poftling-wents, under Brockhull's Bufhes, by Honywood, Newing-Green, and Lymne, to the hills above Weft-Hyth ; where the Exteriors of the River Stour part from the Exteriors of the Wefthanger-Park Brooks, which take a contrary courfe down to the Sea. I (halt therefore demonftrate thefe Regions as Dift'tnB from one another,- the Firft under the Title of the /Ifhford, and the Second under that of thzFolkftone Vale. We have already accompanied the River Stour thro5 it’s Dale to Wye,* where it gees out from theAfhford Vale as a Single Dudl or Channel to Convey the River, already formed in the Vale, away to the Sea; which it does, with theAccefiion of but a few more Waters here and there col¬ lected, from this place quite down to the Bay. But from Wye upwards it receives into both fides of it’s bofom many Waters from the Down-Hills all the way up to Afhford; Formation of the Rim Stour %