The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of Statefor Foreign Affairs The Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith,Prime Minister BRITISH ADMIRAL AND DISTINGUISHED POLITICAL LEADERS 310 THE BRITISH EMPIRE 311 upper reaches, winding through meadows and past lordly homes, an-cient castles, and such historic places as Windsor, Runnymede, Eton,and Hamjjton Court, always bright and
The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of Statefor Foreign Affairs The Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith,Prime Minister BRITISH ADMIRAL AND DISTINGUISHED POLITICAL LEADERS 310 THE BRITISH EMPIRE 311 upper reaches, winding through meadows and past lordly homes, an-cient castles, and such historic places as Windsor, Runnymede, Eton,and Hamjjton Court, always bright and alive with row-boats, andoften the scene of regattas, as at Henley and Kingston, it becomes atLondon a dark and somber river, spanned by great bridges and at-tracting to its heart the varied shipping of the world. Every imag-inable craft gathers here, from coal-barges with their heavy, bronzedred sails to the East-India merchantman and the ocean Bank of England—London Royal Exchange—London Next in importance to the Thames comes the Humber, formed bythe Trent and the Ouse, draining about one sixth of England. TheWitham, the Welland, and the Nen flow into the estuary of the Wash. On the west the chief river is the Severn, its headwaters partedfrom the Thames by the Cotswold Hills. Like the Thames, it beginsits career of two hundred miles in gentle meadows, and flows throughhistoric and romantic scenerJ^ Then it winds through Shrojishire andWorcestershire to Tewkesbury and Gloucester, to which point ascendsa tidal wave, or bore. One of the Severns tributaries is the peaceful Warwickshire Avon,which joins it at Tewkesbury, after passing Stratford, famous as thebirthplace of Shakespeare. The Avon, entering the Bristol Chanjtielsix miles below Bristol, is subject to spring tides of forty feet.
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