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I. As for the firft (the places capacity and aptitude for the 
Seas' influxjor infinuation) fuch as know the firuation,withal 
cannot but know^and muft agree it to be fo. As for ftrangers, 
and fuch as are unacquainted with the place, for perfecting 
infcrmadon in what^eiiher the common Maps, or a par- 
ticularSchenie and Draught at ti^ieLeveljherewithintenvied, 
may chance to be dcfedive in they may pleafe to know,that 
the place Qtbe loctfs loci) we are upon, is a part of that wide, 
fair and fruitful Level,* or Valley, extending itfelf not lefs 
than twenty miles in lengih, betv/een a continued feries 
and range of Hills, Downs, or high grounds, lying at a 
pretty diftance each from other all the way 5 beginning at 
the Kmi(h (hore, and ftretching it felf, Weftveard, 
by Smdi^ich^ Fordroich^ Canterbury^ Chartham^ Chilham,^ God- 
merjham^ Wy^, Jj/.ford, iometime in a direft, fometime in a 
winding courfe, as far at length, as to that famous fpaci- 
ous Level of Romney marjlo^ and is walTied and watered all 
along, at leaft from about Ajkford, by a fweet and plea* 
fant River running through the m.idft of it, as far as to 
Sctndwkh^ and thereby the Creek, or Haven, emptying it- 
felf into the Sea : nothing at all of obftruftion, by the in- 
terpofition of Hills, or high grounds, hindring, or con- 
irolhng the Seas free play and paffage for fo many miles 
together. The place ^hen, with the i>arts, the trad above 
and below it, from the condition, or conftitution of it, is 
plainly not unapt or uncapable of the Seas infinuation and 
influence. 
If any (hall objeft, Canterbury s being in the way, as an 
obftruftion or bar 5 they are eafily enough anfwered. For 
although that City feemeth, and indeed is, at this day, for 
the moft part fomewhat elevated above the pitch of the 
reft of the Valley or Level we are upon 5 yet not fo much 
as to defend it felf many times from floods, and over^ 
flo wings in the lower, and moft d^prefled parts of it, even 
by the Springs it ftands upon, to her great damage and 
annoyance : towards the helping whereof, by the care 
