. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . le, containing ten acres of ground, stood so near the sea,that ships might be moored to iron rings, long remaining in tlie wall there,but now the sea hardly comes within a mile and a half of it, having leftmore than 40,000 acres of land below the range of hills it once washed thefoot of, .and to this we owe Romney and Walland marshes, famous for finemutton and excellent wool. The Via Strata, or Stone-street, from henceis very plainly distinguishable for several miles bet
. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . le, containing ten acres of ground, stood so near the sea,that ships might be moored to iron rings, long remaining in tlie wall there,but now the sea hardly comes within a mile and a half of it, having leftmore than 40,000 acres of land below the range of hills it once washed thefoot of, .and to this we owe Romney and Walland marshes, famous for finemutton and excellent wool. The Via Strata, or Stone-street, from henceis very plainly distinguishable for several miles between this and Canterbury. 4 Reculver is called nine miles from Canterbury, and no Roman way tohe seen between them ; but that it has been a place of great consequence,appears by multitudes of coins and other curious pieces of Roman antiquity,discovered by the seas washing away the walls of the castle, and the re-mains of whatever buildings might have been near it; among which,perhaps, was the palace of the Saxon Kings, who, when Ethelbert had giveniiis at Canterbury to .>( Auciistine. kept their court here. When the. / //, //,, ^( „.,//, ^,///„ ,1/ ll////»/. ,r/ ^,..//,y//.y. 23 mentioned. Three of llieif military ways met here,where the chief of them (the Walling-street)crosses tlie river Stour. As I his must have J)een the most convenientsituation for the residence of the Comes LittorisS(Lvonici, Count of the Saxon shore, whose par-ti(;uhir business it was to fix garrisons u|)on thesea co^st, in phices convenient, and who had tliecommand of 2200 foot and horse for that purpose,as Mr. Camden says. Reason itself will tell us,an officer of such rank and conserjiience, at sucha post, wouUI have a fortified quarter for himselt^and his commanti, while the Romans kept theirfooting here; though it is not mentioned in thehistory of the Danish invasions, hetween threeand four hundred years after the Romans had leftBritain. By that time their military disciplinemight have be
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