[Illustration: 30·2ᵈ. _A Piece of the Roman Wall at Rochester 7. Oct. 1724._ _Stukeley delin_ _Toms Sculp._] [Illustration: 6 Rochester _Castle 4 Oct. 1722._ Dno J. ohi Elwill Barᵗᵗᵒ. dd. _W. Stukeley._] [Illustration: 31·2ᵈ. _A Prospect of Kits Coty:house Kent Oct: 15. 1722._ _Illustrissimo_ Heneagio _Comiti Winchilsea Animi fortitudine & eruditione singulari plusquam titulis nobili, Antiquitatem hanc_ D. Wˢ. Stukeley. _E. Kirkall sculp._] [Illustration: 32·2ᵈ. Kits Coty house _15. Oct. 1722. The N. E. Prospect._ _The View_ _The Groundplot_ _Stukeley delin:_ _The lower_ Coty _house_ _E: Kirkall sculp:_] [Illustration: 33·2ᵈ. _A Prospect of the Country from_ Kits Coty house _15 Oct. 1722_.] [Illustration: 34·2ᵈ. _View of the Ruins of the Lower Coty house._ A. _The Upper Coty house._] [Illustration: 27 Dno. Samueli Lennard _Barr. ᵗᵒ Tabula Votiva_. _Stukeley delin._ _E. Kirkall sculp_ _5 Oct. 1722. Prospect of the Remains of_ Feversham Abby _where K. Stephen was buried_.] [Sidenote: +Durolenum.+] From thence the Itinerary leads us to _Durolenum_. The learned Talbot first guessed it to be Charing; and to me he seems to be in the right. It is upon a spring of the river Len. The present name is derived from the British _Caer_, as they called all Roman towns in after-times: anciently it was wrote _Cering_ with a Saxon termination, intimating the meadows it stands upon. Roman antiquities are found all about, but nothing I have yet met withal, that particularly fixes the spot the Roman city stood upon. Near is a manor called Broughton; Chart[110] is the name of the hundred, from two little adjoining villages: but at this place the distances answer well, and the roads in many parts appear: that from hence to Canterbury passed by Chilham; so over the river Stour by Sharnford, which retains the British name of a causeway. The archbishops of Canterbury had a castellated palace at Charing, probably given them by some of the first Saxon kings, as a royal demesne of theirs: there are large ruins of it still left. Here was a chantry founded by Sir John Burley. All the ground upon the river Len at the bottom of the great ridge of hills is sand, sometimes exceeding white; between that and the bottom of the hills it is flinty: the hills themselves are pure chalk. All Kent consists of large tracts of ground gradually rising from the east to a western ridge steep that way, so succeeded by another of like manner; but any of these tracts are made up of little hills and short valleys, quite of a different nature from those on the west side of the island: and Mr. Camden has observed this before us, as to the northern part of the island, p. 533. _Britannia_. We may gather an idea of the natural reason of it from what we spoke at first, of the ground hardening upon the instant of the earth’s rotation.