. Archaeologia cantiana. r cellarsthere. As a summary of the whole ; when we take into con-sideration the existence of ancient pilings and timberwork, the many channels of the river which intersectedthe city and its suburbs, the islands formed by thesestreams, and their periodical flooding with other parts ofthe locality itself by the winter inundations, togetherwith our knowledge that the Stour was navigable toCanterbury four hundred years since for vessels of tento fourteen tons burden, we are led to conclude thatthe ancient settlement (and it has existed from timeimmemorial), must have been
. Archaeologia cantiana. r cellarsthere. As a summary of the whole ; when we take into con-sideration the existence of ancient pilings and timberwork, the many channels of the river which intersectedthe city and its suburbs, the islands formed by thesestreams, and their periodical flooding with other parts ofthe locality itself by the winter inundations, togetherwith our knowledge that the Stour was navigable toCanterbury four hundred years since for vessels of tento fourteen tons burden, we are led to conclude thatthe ancient settlement (and it has existed from timeimmemorial), must have been uninhabitable at certainseasons if its occupants had not made use of similarresources to those employed by the dwellers in thelacustrine districts above alluded to. However, to draw any decided conclusion on this sub-ject without further data, would be to pass those limitsof proof and record, a reliance on which is the especialpride of the antiquary, and to enter within the hazardousand uncertain regions of , CANTERBURY.
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