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Committee, and which report had been unanimously agreed to, and ordered 

 to be acted upon. The Lodge would be thoroughly restored, and much 

 greater space given to the Museum. (See .-Abstract of the Report, ante 

 PP- 31-34) 



On the slope of the hill, overlooking the Lea Valley, Mr. T. V. Holmes, 

 F.G.S., gave a short lecture on the physical geography of this fine broad 

 expanse of alluvial soil.' 



A ramble through Bury Wood and over Chingford Plain took the party 

 to Queen Elizabeth's Lodge, where the Epping Forest Museum was inspected 

 with interest. 



THIRD VOYAGE UN THE LEA FROM HERTFORD 



TO WALT HAM ABBEY. 



Thursda''', June 15TH, 1899. 



Conductors : — Major Lamorock Flower, F. San. I. ; Mark Davies, Esq. 

 (Gresham Angling Society); T. V. Holmes, Esq., F.G.S. ; W. M. Webb, 

 Esq., F.L.S , and the Hon. Secretaries. 



By the continued courtesy of the Lee Conservancy Board and the 

 abundant kindness of our Member, Major Flower, the Club was enabled, 

 under exceptionally favourable circumstances, to repeat the charming water 

 excursion v;hich had been found so enjoyable on two previous occasions. 2 The 

 arrangements were similar ; the greater number of voyagers went down to 

 Hertford by the 9.30 train from London ; others went overnight or cycled 

 down, and a break started in good time from Buckhurst Hill to meet 

 an early train from Waltham Cross, for the convenience of the Forest-dwelling 

 members, and to carry the materials for the tea on board. 



After a brief inspection of the ancient town, and the Castle, mentioned in 

 a former report, the party embarked on board the " Salisbury " from the 

 towing path near the road from the railway station, steam was turned on, and 

 the voyage began. 



Major Flower is one of the best authorities on the Lea, and was an 

 enthusiastic describer of its usefulness and the quiet pastoral beauties of the 

 bordering water-meadows. Mr. Corbie, the Clerk to the Lee Conservancy 

 Board, with thoughtful kindness, sent an ample supply of reprinted copies of 

 a paper by Mr. E. A. H. Bramley, entitled " Walton's Favourite River," 

 which had been read before the Gresham Angling Society on July 19th, 1S98, 

 for distribution amongst the members of the party. This little book plea- 

 santly gave much information to strangers to the Lea, and as the present 

 compiler has somewhat fully described the river in the reports already 

 published, he will gladly quote some passages. Mr. Bramley is picturing a 

 voyage similar to our own, and begins : — 



I See his Paper on " The Geology of the Lea Valley," Essex Naturalist, vol. viii., 198. 

 2 The previous voyages on the Lea under Major Flower's superintendence were held on 

 July 14th, 1894 (" Down River Lea from Hertford to Tottenham," Essex Naturalist, vol. 

 viii., PP 205-213) ; on July 29th, 1S95 (" Voyage from Bromley to Waltham Abbey," Essex 

 Naturalist, vol. ix., pp. 87-99) ; June 27th, 1896 (" Second Voyagefrom Hertford to Waltham 

 Abbey," Esskx Naturalist, vol. ix., pp. 208-213). 



