If you deem the following statement of the late discovery of an ancient Canoe near the village of North Stoke, in the west of Sussex, with a description of it, and some observations concerning its probable antiquity, likely to interest or afford pleasure to the Members of the Society of Antiquaries, I would entreat the favour of you to lay it before them; together with a drawing of it, and a plan of the situation where it was found, and you will oblige