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north Welsh mountains, by the other the west side of the Pennine 



range. 



East of it was a south-easterly extension of the Dove. The Even- 

 lode soon captured this by sending out the Cherwell as a subsequent 

 stream ; and on the other side it captured all the Cotteswold streams. 



Fig. 7. — Original Consequent Streams. 



The Kennet was the other important river. It originally drained 

 Mid and some of South Wales. But the Evenlode robbed it of the 

 Mid Wales water by cutting off the Cotteswold streams. So the 

 Evenlode — including the Thames from Oxford to Heading — was the 

 bigger at starting, and grew bigger in consequence, by robbing the 



