Essex naturalist: being the journal of the Essex Field Club . The Thames from Dagenham Bank, looking uf the /i. P. Leitch, after a sketch by Dr. Smiles. Again, in his recapitulation, he writes :— In these, its declining years, the mighty creature has fallencaptive to man. With shrunken bulk, and in a narrower channel,the Thames now winds an imprisoned course. Its vaster life andmeridian years were lived before human annals began. P. 148. With regard to the extent of these walls, we must rememberthat along its whole course the river is fed by inlets, creeks, andstreams, and, to secure
Essex naturalist: being the journal of the Essex Field Club . The Thames from Dagenham Bank, looking uf the /i. P. Leitch, after a sketch by Dr. Smiles. Again, in his recapitulation, he writes :— In these, its declining years, the mighty creature has fallencaptive to man. With shrunken bulk, and in a narrower channel,the Thames now winds an imprisoned course. Its vaster life andmeridian years were lived before human annals began. P. 148. With regard to the extent of these walls, we must rememberthat along its whole course the river is fed by inlets, creeks, andstreams, and, to secure these from the inflow of the highest springtides, the banks have had to be continued far up on either side,until the higher ground is reached. In the early chronicles and 158 DAGENHAM ISREACH. records of the abbeys and religious houses which had lands abuttingon the river we find continual mention of these under the term inn-ings, and the repairs were always keeping them well employed. Altogether, the walls or embankments, and these innings, havebeen reck
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