AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

DECT. II— Divifimmns.

AGs county 1s divided into two grand diſftri&s, Weſt and Eaſt Kent; the former containing the Lath of Scray z; the other comprizing the Laths of St. Auguſtine and Shepway, with the upper diviſion of Scray.

The county contains about fourteen hundred ſquare miles, or eight hundred ninety-x thouſand acres*, ſixty-three hundreds, four hundred and thirteen pariſhes, two cities, twelve corporate towns, thirty-nine market towns, nine thouſand freeholds, forty thouſand houſes, and two hun- dred thouſand inhabitants,

It ſends eighteen members to parliament, pays nearly a twenty-fourth part of the land-tax, and provides nine hundred and fixty men for the national militia,

Two chains of hills run through the middle of Kent, called the Upper and Lower; or, the Chalk and Gravel Hills. The northern range and whole north ſide of the €ounty are compoſed principally of chalk and flints; the ſouthern of iron and ragſtone: more weſterly, towards Surrey, clay and gravel prevail upon the eminences,

Below this laft range lies the Weald: an extenfive and nearly level tra& of land, rich and fertile at ſome places; where fine pafſturage and timber are produced.

The north part of Shepey is high ground; but it is moßly low and marſhy on the ſouth ſide. where two ſtreams, running into the Swale, form the iſlets of Elm- ley and Harty.

Thanet had a fall claim to the title of an iſland when

# By meaſuring all the finuoßities of the coaſt, I make the circumfe- rence of Kent 165 miles; bur the proper boundary for aſcertaining the contents cannot be more than 1 0 miles; which, reduced to a ſquare of ſour lides, gives 1406,25 íquare miles, or 900,000 fatute acres: from which ſhould Ve deduéted all the public waters, equal perhaps to ten ſquare miles; which reduces the meaſure to. 893,600 acres.

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