C 68, ) 
ing next he (hews the Pains our Author took to ac- 
quire the Sapon Language, then almoft loft, of the gra- 
dual Decay of which Language he gives a fhort Hiftory. 
Then he gives an Account of our Authors other Stu- 
dies and Works; whence it appears he intended a corn- 
pleat Treatife of the Antiquities of Kent, this of the 
Roman Ports and Forts being a part thereof. Speaking 
of the Difficulties of compiling Treatifes of this Nature, 
he gives a Ihort View of feveral Antiquaries, and their 
Defigns and Labours, moft whereof are unpublifli'd,and 
many loft. He gives an Account of our Authors Trea- 
tife of Gavel-kind, publilh'd in the year 1660, in 4/0. 
His Saxon Dictionary ; and concludes with a Lift of his 
Pofthumous Manufcripts. 
In the Treattfe it (elf the Author begins with RuM? 
pium y and reje&ing other Opinions, places it at Sand- 
wich, making Richlorough Oftle a Tharus to guide the 
Sea-men into the Harbour, and makes Geffbriacum, more 
anciently Port us Icciw, to be Bolen; which Rut upturn he 
fays was then, and fbmetime after called Lmdenwich, 
at which place he affirms C<efar firft landed ; tho the 
Author of the Life allows of Mr. Halleys Account 
thereof publijfli'd in a late Tranfa&ion. As to the Good- 
wyn Sands, he denies them ever to have been firm Land 
they are more foft, fluid and porous, and yet tenaci- 
ous, and confequently more voracious than other Sands, 
which are harder, foliier and rockier. Since they are 
not mentioned by any Writers of great Antiquity, he 
believes they may be of late Emergency % and poiTibly 
caufed by the great Inundation in Flanders about Willi- 
am the Second's, or Henry the Firft's Time ; the recefs of 
which Water from thefe places probably left the Good- 
win Sands shallower than formerly. 
Next our Author fpeaks of Dulru, now Dover : To 
omit his Derivation of the Name, he obferves it was a 
Roman Port, and h^is all along fo continued. Bo/en on 
the FrenchCoaH, and Rutupium on the Brit ifh, being in 
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