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id: 40020
author: Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)
title: The Thames
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summary:
  With rivers as with men, size is not an element in greatness, and for no other reason than that it carries London on its banks the Thames would be the most famous river in the world. The crowd prefers the slice of river between Hammersmith and Barnes Bridge, because from first to last so much can be seen of the race, but the curve hides the winning-post.


id: 8682
author: Cornish, C. J. (Charles John)
title: The Naturalist on the Thames
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words: 66105
sentence: 2582
flesch: 73
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  The supply of fish, and the open and strictly private extent of water, then attracted a number of wild duck or water birds of some kind, which the writer was invited to see and identify, as it did not seem probable that they could be the ordinary wild duck, which are vegetable feeders, and would need an artificial supply of grain, which is provided on the Serpentine, but is not given to any of these reservoir ducks. They feed on the decaying leaves of the iris and other water plants, and from the number of divisions on the shell are believed to live for sometimes twenty years.


id: 21549
author: Marryat, Frederick
title: Jacob Faithful
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  As soon as we had put our traps on board, as old Tom called them, he received his orders, and we cast off from the wharf. Thanky, boy, so I thought, but wasn't sure: and then old Tom burst out in a beautiful air: Trust not too much your own opinion, When your vessel's under weigh, Let good advice still bear dominion; That's a compass will not stray.


id: 46818
author: Various
title: Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea. Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial
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flesch: 66
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summary:
  At Lechlade linking hands, come likewise to support The mother of great Thames. The daïs characteristic of old time, when distinctions of rank were very palpable, still remains; but the beautiful old flooring of these painted tiles so much used by Tudor builders has gone, although there is reason to suppose that it still existed eighty years ago.


