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G. E. Mitton. The Thames
The Thames
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE BEAUTY OF THE RIVER
CHAPTER II. THE OXFORD MEADOWS
CHAPTER III. THE OLD TOWN OF ABINGDON
CHAPTER IV. SINODUN HILL AND DORCHESTER
CHAPTER V. CASTLE AND STRONGHOLD
CHAPTER VI. TWIN VILLAGES
CHAPTER VII. A MITRED ABBOT
CHAPTER VIII. Sonning and its Roses
CHAPTER IX. WARGRAVE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD
CHAPTER X. HENLEY REGATTA
CHAPTER XI. THE ROMANCE OF BISHAM AND HURLEY
CHAPTER XII. BOULTER'S LOCK AND MAIDENHEAD
CHAPTER XIII. WINDSOR AND ETON
CHAPTER XIV. MAGNA CHARTA
CHAPTER XV. PENTON HOOK
CHAPTER XVI. ABOUT CHERTSEY AND WEYBRIDGE
CHAPTER XVII. THE LONDONER'S ZONE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE RIVER AT LONDON
CHAPTER XIX. OUR NATIONAL POSSESSION
INDEX
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G. E. Mitton
Published by Good Press, 2021
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This account of the river may well begin at Folly Bridge, seeing it is folly in any case to attempt to cut off a section of a river, and, as before explained, our course from Oxford to London is peculiarly arbitrary, for the Thames proper does not begin till below Dorchester, and at Oxford the river is the Isis. Having thus disarmed criticism, without further explanation or apology, we stand upon Folly Bridge, which is a little way above the end of the course for both Torpids and Eights.
To the left are the college barges, resplendent in many colours, with their slender flagstaffs rising against a background of the shady trees that border Christchurch meadows. The reach of water beside them is alive with boats, and the oars rise and dip with the regularity of the legs of a monster centipede. The barges should be seen in Eights week, when they are in their glory, occupied by the mothers, sisters, and aunts of the undergraduates, dressed in costumes that in mass look like brilliant flower-beds.
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