Edited by W. P. Strickland. Reprinted from the last American Edition.
“For the rugged earnestness of the man it is impossible not to have a high admiration. His life is full of strange incident, and, setting aside its oddities, must command, and more than command, interest.”—Athenæum.
“Full of the richest Americanisms and quaintest anecdotes. It gives the details of a religious phase of society almost unknown in England.”—Dickens’s Household Words.
MOST ELEGANT CHRISTMAS PRESENT.
THE BOOK OF THE THAMES,
FROM ITS RISE TO ITS FALL.
By Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall. With numerous Illustrations.
THE AUTHORS TO THE PUBLIC.
We have the honour to submit to the public a “Book of the Thames, from its Rise to its Fall,” hopeful that our readers may share with us the enjoyment we have so long, and so often, derived from the “King of Island Rivers!”
We have traced the bountiful river from the bubbling well out of which it issues, in the meadow by Trewsbury Mead—its lonely birthplace—through its whole course, gathering tributaries, and passing with them through tranquil villages, populous towns, and crowded cities; ever fertilizing, ever beautifying, ever enriching, until it reaches the most populous city of the modern or the ancient world, forming thence the Great Highway by which a hundred Nations traverse the globe.