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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    InofcaLitions. I. At Surrender?, * ' > 2. ChartAlign a. [ ] Headcorn, Style-bridge and Hunton, to Yaiding, where it is united with the Other Great branch of the Medway that comes from Tunbridge. Thefe now become One, take a direction, (as the Stour does when it leaves it's Vale) and roll along thro’ Maidftone and Rochefter, a Noble wide and deep River, into the Weft Swale • or rather into the Mouth of the Thames, between the Hie of Grean on one fide, and Sheernefs and Queen bo rough in Shepey on the other. What is farther remarkable in this Country, is it’s feveral very Grand Inofculations with the Afhford Vale. The Firjl is between Surrenden and Goldwell in Chart Magna,- where the Vallies of the whole country by a very Gentle rife enter the Afhford-Vale; with whole Vallies it is gradually yet ftrongly Inofculated: for here they leave a great Hollow, for the fpace of three miles, between that and the Hill at Goldwell - the Stone-hills partly Intermitting and partly Receeding inward to Hothfield and Codington. But the Second is of a Grand Extent. For the Stone- hills, which Refume their courfe at Goldwell and proceed thro’ Great Chart, Intermit or retire inward again from the Quarrie atBeauvoir-Shales, to Afhford, Wilsborough, Seving- ton, Merfham and Smeath : after which they-Return to their Former courfe at the Quarry at Tap-Hill on the W, of Allingfon. By this Recefs the Vale for the Space of full five miles upon the line, is laid fo Infenfibly into the Weald, that it looks all like one entire flat Country; the Defcent of the Capillary veflels of the feveral Waters being very Gentle; yet their Intermixture is fo Intimate, that without an attentive and judicious Search, you don’t perceive the little Elevation of the Ground, that feparates them all from one another, and the Weald from the Afhford-Vale : espe¬ cially, as all over this fpor of Ground, on this fide of the River v — i