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and providence of former ages^ it is very certafn, and by- 
digging Wclls^ Vaults, Cellars and the like, daily experi- 
mented, that the moft part of the City, not excepting the 
very heart and center of it, is made and railed ground 3 
the tokens of foundations upon foundations, to a very 
confiderablc depth, ^daiiy appearing, a'^d rhe ground (as 
at J^yierda/^^ Veince and elfewhere) tor fupporting fiiper-' 
, ftrudurcs, in feveral places often (tuck and fluffed with 
Piles oi Wood, or long Poles and Stakes, forced into tha 
ground, as Wells and Cellar-diggers have lofonn d me,= 
Nay, and as if where about now the Bull-ftake Market- 
place is kept, the River had fometime had its courfe or 
current^ Pits aud othqrlike Tanners Utenfiis, have, not 
many years fince, been met withal in digging for Cellars 
thereabouts. To this let me add, that my very next- 
neighbour in CajUe^ftreet ^ v/ithin thefe thirty years 
finking a Cellar, did a good depth ( five or fix foot deepj 
light upon, and was put to fome ftop and ftand in his^ 
work, by a ftrong and well couched arched piece of Ro- 
^^;^TiIeor Brick,which he was fain to take, or break afun^- 
der, and remove, before he could proceed. Flereofl was 
an eye-witnefs, and (tor curiofity fake) took one of the 
Bricks or Tiles to my felf, which with fome otherlike 
Roman remains C fome found in that which is my own: 
Garde-nJ I keep by me to this day. However then, Cm^- 
terbury may now feem to ftand in the EjiMar/s way 5 yet 
time was when in probability it did not 5 when I mean^ 
the place, the foil which ncJw the City occupies, as the 
reft of the whole Valley both above and below it, was of 
too low a pitch, to be an obftacle to it. 
2. As to the fecond enquiry, ( whether probably the 
Sea did ever aftualiy infinuate it felf fo far as to this place^. 
and "whenj the anfwer is nothing fo eafie : Record of it 
we have none. The beft and eldeft account we have now 
of the Condition, Scite and Conftitution of thefe our Eaft- 
ern Parts and Traft, we owe to Julius C^efar^ and thejR^?- 
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