Excerpt from The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, and the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen, and Meirionydd, Vol. 5
Under the very comprehensive title of "The History of Kentish Town from the Creation," the Rev. Edward White lately delivered an extremely interesting and instructive lecture to a large and thoroughly appreciative audience at the hall of the Tolmers Square Institute, in Drummond Street.
The chair was taken by Mr. Churchwarden Bolton, supported by the Rev. Frederick Hastings, president; Messrs. H. Devenish, J. N. Gall, hon. secs.; and a number of other well-known friends of the Institution.
The rev. gentleman (who was repeatedly applauded in the course of his address) commenced by saying that although the denizens of the more aristocratic parts of the metropolis might affect not to think much of the district of Kentish Town, he was prepared to show that from the earliest times it had, at all events, been a rising place, for at some remote period it had risen no less than 10,000 feet from the bottom of the sea. Previous to that wonderful upheaval (i.e., when it formed a portion of the German Ocean) its first inhabitants were flat fishes, who, as they swam about with that enormous mass of water above their heads, little dreamt that the muddy ground beneath them would one day be the site of "The Red Cap," of Camden Town, of the "Brecknock", the "Assembly House", of the Belle Isle Mission; in fact, of a large and populous district, with the usual trams, shams, and other ordinary accompaniments of modern civilisation.
His audience would naturally ask how he came to know that, and who was the historian of that long transitive state extending over probably hundreds of thousands of years?
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