Within the space of a few years back, people who are curious in antiquities have taken occasion to observe a very peculiar kind of red earthen ware found amidst the cottage furniture of the fishermen on the Kentish coast, within the mouth of the river Thames. On examination they have discovered it to be ancient Roman manufacture. Upon enquiry after the source from whence such great quantities of this earthen ware could have been for so many years derived, a traditional story has been brought forward, and is now the current solution of this curious fact; namely, that some Roman vessel, freighted with these wares, must have been many ages ago cast away; and that upon the wreck of its hulk breaking up, this curious lading poured forth into the open sea on the coafts, hath been dragged up from time to time by the fishermen's nets: and the place of the wreck has been supposed to be somewhere about Whitstablebay.