LETTER XV 



Great Flood Records Studio in Danger Flood-Gates and Sewage 

 Works Sufficiency of Thames Water Supply Making a New 

 Lake versus Spoiling an Old One The Flood by Moonlight 

 Effects of Flood Kingfisher Boating in a Flood Curious 

 Effect of Flood on Daisies Damage done by Flood. 



2Oth N<rveinber, 1894. 



DEAR MARCO No doubt you must have 

 thought of us when in your morning paper 

 you read accounts of the great flood that has 

 been going on in the Thames Valley for the 

 last fortnight. It has been the highest but 

 one of any flood during this century, the 

 water having risen to within nine inches of a 

 recording mark on a stone at Shillingford, 

 put up in 1809, which was the elate of the 

 great flood that carried away the centre 

 arches of Wallingforct Bridge. I have often 



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