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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    « It’s Divifjon. ft’S-W^ ST t, R vj ^lancli. [ ^ ] I ’ the Channel being as yet (ingle or undivided. And let it be here remark’d, that the Vallies that are contain’d within both the Lenham and the Poftling Divifion of the /Ifhjord- Vale, are all IVater-Yallies,* they being the Matrix, in which the River is entirely Generated or formed j and principally from the Brooks that fpring from the Doivn Hills. Thefe therefore are they, which I fliall briefly run over • for as for the Others which come from the Stone Hills, their Courfe is (o Jhort> efpecially in the Lenham Di¬ vifion, that it is but of fmall Moment to either the Progrefs or Increafe of the River to give any more than a general notion of them. But as Thefe Valiies joyn their Streams all over the Vale to the Formation of the River in the Mea¬ dows, give me leave juft to hint, that whether I deferibe them by the Courfe of their Waters or of the Valiies them- fclves, and whether I Infert them into the River or into the Meadows, the Defcription amounts to the fame; and I fhall ufe them interchangeably. The River which at Afhford is fplit into two Du6ts or Arms naturally divides the Country into fo many nearly Equal parts: the IVeftern may be called the Lenham and the Eafiern the Poftling Divifion. We fliall begin then our Defcription at IVye; here the valiies of the Stour firft: Traverfe the Country both from the IV, and the E. from the great Ledge of the Down Hills down into the River, viz, from EaftweU Park on one fide of it’s Channel and Wye- Downs on the other. And the Capillaries of the two Interior Valiies of both thefe Suits, defeend as aforefaid, from a very gentle Rife in the great Chafm at Wye, which eroding from Lull to hill, manifeftly here feparates the Afhford vale from ,the Stour-dale, as before explain’d. In our Western Divifion, Th ere are five confiderable Valiies that come from Eaflwell Park into the main Chan¬ nel