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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    IF Zr.ck Northern Branches. 7- •Southern Branches. 4- [ 74 ] •The Second General Divifion is all poffefs’d by one large .Compound valley, that fpreads itfelf over a very confider- able Trad of Land. This Carries that large Brook or Rivulet that drains it’s various parts, and comes down under Hinxhill, by Swatfield bridge and Wilsborough-mill into the River below. It is bounded by the Hill of the Firft Divi¬ fion all the length of it’s N. IV. fide: at Top it’s confines lie between 7>^y-town and Hampton; on the Eaft it has the hill that defeends from Hampton to the Red-lyon by Bra- bourn Lees ,* and on the South below, it is confin’d between Sevington and Wilsborough down to the Meadows under Alfop-green at Hockwood Barn. It’s particular branches are numerous, both on the North and the South fide of it’s Channel. On the North it has Seven ,* whereof the Firft comes double partly from Wilsborough-Lees and partly from a little under Hinxhill, where it is ftrongly Inofculated with the Sixth branch of the Wye Divifion. The other fix come from the hills between Troy-town and Brabourn-ftreet, pof- fiefiing the fpace of upwards of a mile and a half at the Ori¬ ginal, and they fall down into the Brook fucceffively one after another to the Eaft of Swatfield Bridge. Th^Southern fide of this Brook is occupied by Four principal vallies that come down from Sevington, Merfham-ftreet, Hatch'Park,, Smeath and Brabourn- Lees; which taking up the fpace of about two miles, go into the Meadows between Swatfield Bridge and the Tile-Kiln under Brabourn-Lees* As for the lower part of this Valley at the Meadows quite up to Swatfield Bridge, which is a Dud of fomewhat above two miles and a half long; it has no branches, only many very fhort Lateralis on each fide, that compofe the Ridge •on this fide of it’s Channel, that feparates it from tht Proper River Stour. And it’s other or Upper extremity that lyes above