HAMPSHIRE STREAMS AND 

 WOODLANDS 



WINTRY WATERS 



(THE ITCHEN AND TlDAL THAMES) 



THOSE who during the great frost of January 1895 

 cared to forego the attractions of the dead and frozen 

 surface of the London lakes, found a strange contrast 

 in the scene presented by the still living and moving 

 surface of the London river. The tidal Thames for 

 the moment changed its nature, and became a sub-arctic 

 stream, deserted by man, whose place was taken by 

 flights of wandering sea-fowl and a weltering drift of 

 ice. Day and night the ice-floes coursed up and down 

 with the tide, joining and parting, touching and 

 receding, eddying and swirling, always moving and ever 

 increasing, with a ceaseless sound of lapping water and 

 whispering, shivering ice ; while over the surface the 

 sea-gulls skimmed in hundreds, sailing out of the fog 

 and mist of London, flying over the crowded bridges> 



