The River of London

ST. PAUL’S FROM BLACKFRIARS
BY HILAIRE BELLOC
AUTHOR OF ‘THE PATH TO ROME’
T. N. FOULIS LONDON & EDINBURGH
Published December 1912
Printed by Morrison & Gibb Limited, Edinburgh
reproduced from Oil Paintings by JOHN MUIRHEAD, R.B.A., R.S.W.


INTRODUCTION
Through the flats that bound the North Sea and shelve into it imperceptibly, merging at last with the shallow flood, and re-emerging in distant sandbanks and less conspicuous shoals, run facing each other two waterways far inland, which are funnels and entries, as it were, scoured by the tide.