( 88^) 
about three miles from C^n^erFury^ Eaftward, lying under 
the brow of the Bill itretching out by Vpfireett, as far 
as to the Weft: end Sarr-wall^ by which you make your 
entrance/into Thm^et ^ upon the like occafion to thai here 
at Charthani, (die digging, or finking of a V/ellj aca very 
great depih,Tftore of Oyikrs and otheriike fhells, together 
\ with an Iron Anchor, firm and unimpaired, were found 
and turned up in our time. The like I have been told of 
an Anchor in our days digged up at Broomedovpfjc^ on the 
iame fide of the Level fcmswhat above Canterbury^ Weft- 
ward. And although I Gin at prefent inftance only in- 
thefe few on either hde the Valley ^ yet happily upon en- 
quiry other might be found for confirming our conjefture. 
And I fliall defire and hope, that every ingenuous perfon 
will fo far obhge and encourage me, as upon this over- 
ture to help m.e in this refearch and fcrutiny, by imparting; 
to me, what either of his own knowledge, or credible re- 
lation from others^ may conduce towards fo noble a dif- 
covery. 
3, Mean time let us entertain our felves with ourthird'- 
Query, and fee if happily fomewhat may not thence re^ 
fult adminicular and fuppletory to what may be defeftive 
and wanting in the former. Our third Query now is, how 
in probability, and when this Valley or Level, being once 
Sea- land, fiiould come to be fo quite deferted, and for- 
faken oi the Sea, as it is at this day, the Sea not approach- 
ing it by fo many, a dozen miles, or more > In anfwer 
whereof, I muft needs fay and grant, that in cafe this Le- 
vel were once Sea, an JEfimry I mean, or Arm of it 5- fo- 
very long it was ago, as we may not reafonably think, 
that Canterbury ( whether as a Gity, or never fo mean a: 
or Village) was then w rerum nattiraj or a place in-^ 
habited ^ which happily it may have been, if not as long 
as Julim C<€/irsdays, yet undoubtedly not long after. For 
an account we have of it (as of fome other places in JCe;//) 
in the Romans time, both from Ptolemy the Geographer, 
