( 969 ) 
To thofe Arguoients of Camden, the Author of this 
Difcourfe adds another, of which Mr Camdm v/as not a- 
ware, (as not being known in his time :) From a pa-^cel 
ofjirafjge and monjirous Teeth and BoneSy which ( in the 
month of September 1668.) upon digging a Weii in the Pa- 
rifh of Lhartham (about three miles Southward fxamCanter- 
bury) in the Land of Mr 'john Somner ( whom I take to be 
a Son, or fome near Relation, of Mr William Somne-t) were 
found at the Depth of feventeen foot under ground. Which 
Bones and Teeth (from the Figure and Greatnefs of them, 
and from the Condition ot the Earth wherein they v/erc 
found, J he judgeth to have been the Remainders of forne 
Hippopotami^ or other large Mari/ie Animal, which fma» 
ny Ages fince) had periflied there 5 which hath fince been 
covered with this depth of Earth. He gives us the Figure 
of thefe Monftrous Teeth 5 which, he fays, were in a man- 
ner Petrified, and turned into Stone, (weighing each Tooth 
fomewhac above half a pound ^ ) and intended a like De- 
fcription of the Bones 5 and a Map of tiie Country, or 
Draught of the Level 5 But Death prevented it. 
This Chartham he obferves to lye about the middle of a 
large rich Valley, for about twenty miles or more in 
Length, and of a, cqnfidepble Breadth ^ having on ecich 
fide of it, at a confiderable Diftance, a long Trad of Hills, 
or High-grounds. Through which Valley, there novv 
runs the River Sture, Stoure, oxEfiure, for twenty miles or 
more, by AJhford, Wye, Godmerjbam^ Chilham, Chartham^ 
Canterbury, }ordwich^ and fo to Sandwich, where it diC- 
chargeth itfeli into the Sea, 
This long and large Vale, ( from the Situation of the 
Place, the Nature of the Soil, and the Remains of this 
Marine Animal, lodged here ^t lb great Depth under 
'Ground,) he judgeth to have been fin former Ages ) an 
Mjiuarium, or Arm of the Sea, Into which, the-Sea (be- 
ing ftopped by the I(ihmus, which then joyued Fra^ne and 
England, from the Courfe v/ hie h nov/ it takes, J did dil- 
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