224 Mr. King’s Account of a Subsidence 
TO EDWARD KING, E S Qj, 
SIR, Dover, Nov. 24, 1785. 
AS I have been requefted by my friend Mr. Boys, of 
Sandwich, to examine into the caufe of the finking of fome 
ground near the town of Folkftone, in this neighbourhood, 
and to fend you the refults of my inquiries ; I have made it 
my bufinels to attend particularly to the fubje£l. I have been 
twice to view the place. I have endeavoured to procure the 
befi: information, and have compared my remarks with what 
the reverend Mr. Sackette formerly faid upon the fame 
fubjeft to the Royal Society. 
That you may have a clearer idea of the place where the 
ground is finking, I have annexed a drawing of it, taken from 
a fmall hill near the foot of the cliff. 
A A (Tab. IV.) reprefents the length of the ground, 130 
feet, which is funk 40 feet from the top of the cliff DD. 
BB, is 3 . filfure, in the valley between the finking ground AA 
and the hill HH, and in which there are many fmaller chafms. 
C, the tower of Folkftone»Church, not far from the cliff 
DD. 
E, part of the town of Folkftone, as feen between the cliff 
DD and the hill HH. 
F, the high chalk cliffs at a diftance, leading towards 
Dover. 
G, a track of pafture land, between a high range of hills 
and the fea. 
I, the beach, at the foot of the hill H. 
KK, Rocks, faid to be raifed (and I believe they are) by the 
finking of the ground A A. 
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