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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    Weald of Kent. it’s Bounds. The Clay Hills. ( 84 ] boundary, begin and fet off almoft clofe under, and much below the Chalk or Down Hills, at Eaftware Bay. They take their way faft by the Sea as far as to San’gate Caftlej but here the fhore trending gradually towards the S. gives room to the narrow flip of the Tail of Romney Marlh to intervene,- which, as the Coaft winds itfelf off towards Dim- church and Romney, grows wider and wider. But thefe Hills keeping on their Courfe direB, firft over part of the Marfh, as far as to Aliington, and thence by Chart, Pluckley and Egerton to Bough ton Malherb, they overlook the Weald, and accompany the Down-hills in pretty near a Parallel line to the end of my bounds, and much farther. I come now to the Weald of Kent and Romney Marfh, the other parts of South-Eaft Kent ,* of which, as they are out of my Diftrid: and Propofals, I fhould have nothing to fay, did not my Defire of rendering my Chart as Compleat as I can, difpofe me to praffent them each with a Tind: or Ground fuitable to the General Nature of their Lands, and to Map them in a free manner fo far as my Paper extends. By this flight Work (ns I call it in comparifon with the Reft of my Chart) not only their Situation, but their Nature and Content with the reft of the Country will plainly appear. And this finifhes the Defcription of the whole Eajlern/Ingle of Bt dta'in from Sea to Sea. « > THE WEALD, OF KENT Is all that country that has the Stone-hills on it’s N. from Boughton Malherb on the IF. to Aliington on the A). Here, at a little houfe called Cophoufe, there fets off from the Stone-hills, another Ledge of hills, which are a ftiff Clay or Marie, the natural Soil of the Weald. Thefe turn down firft a little way S. but very quickly round off to a S'. IV. dircdion and form a pleafanc angle or Comer, that lies