The River.

CHAPTER I.

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Course of the Fleet—Derivation of its Name—The River of[1]
Wells—The Fleet choked up—Cleansing the Fleet—The
Fleet Navigable—Wells—Ponds and Pools

CHAPTER II.

Water Supply of London—The Fleet to be Cleansed—Smell[13]
of the River—Prehistoric London—Antiquarian Discoveries—Cleansing
the Fleet—Fouling the River—Rivers
rising at Hampstead—The Tye-bourne—The
West-bourne—Course of the West-bourne

CHAPTER III.

Course of the Fleet—The Hampstead Ponds—Rural Fleet—Gospel[25]
Oak—Parliament Hill—Kentish Town—Brown's
Dairy—Castle Inn—St. Pancras Wells—Burials at St.
Pancras—the Brill

CHAPTER IV.