The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . ave us do, from the easT, weintroduce the reader to the lair county of Kent. Tlicre are at least half-a-dozenStours, great and small, in Kngland; and though the stream with which we startis entirely Kentish (and might, therefore, take the name of the county), it isconniionly distinguished by the name of the C.\NTERHii;v Stoik. Tliere are othersof its namesakes—one of which we .shall meet with towards the end of our journey— of greater , but tliere is no more interesting member of t
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . ave us do, from the easT, weintroduce the reader to the lair county of Kent. Tlicre are at least half-a-dozenStours, great and small, in Kngland; and though the stream with which we startis entirely Kentish (and might, therefore, take the name of the county), it isconniionly distinguished by the name of the C.\NTERHii;v Stoik. Tliere are othersof its namesakes—one of which we .shall meet with towards the end of our journey— of greater , but tliere is no more interesting member of tli(> a ride, a river, with its tributaries, as seen on the map, offers the appearanceof the root of a tree, with its branches gracefully following in a commondirection towards the parent stream,on the principle that, as the mainriver ever has marching orders towardsthe ocean, all its feeders, in the , loyally ynii in a forward move-m e n t. On rS tour, however,is a notableexception. Itassumes a magni-tude at ,but near thattown, and at right. ttlVEItS OF KKNT AM> M>M:.\. The CANTERBrRv SiorK.] ASUFORD AND LTMINGE. 3 angles to the subsequent direction of the main stream, two distinct branchesjoin issue. The main stream from Ashford to the Isle of Thanet runs almost duenorth-east; branch number one, that comes from the hills in the direction ofMaidstone, travels to Ashford almost due south-west, and the other branch that risesnorth of Hythe flows in a diametrically opposite course. These little rivers areof equal length, and flow, in their unpretendinii fashion, through jJ-^icly ruralcountry. The first-named of these branches rises near Lenham, Avhich takes its namefrom a feeder of the great river of the northern watershed of the to the seat of the Bering family at Surrenden, where there have beenDarings since the time of the Conqueror, and to Little Chart Church, will be,at the latter place, not far
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