-'-o' 
THE THAMES. 3(?l 
lit to drink. The bed of this river 
•uins of many edifices which have fallen 
nioutli much choked up, it frequently over- 
“O? more particularly during the prevalence of 
“South 
'vind. 
V BRITISH RIVERS. 
W^’Ucip,] , 
, * ‘''ors of England are tire Thames, the Severn, 
' the Humber. 
THE THAMES. 
hy thp most lov’d of all the Occan’.s sons 
sire, to his embraces runs ; 
Mke P^y bis tribute to the sea, 
ar*^ meet eternity. 
to iws banks confin’d, 
^liere 
f'lll 
and common as the sea •!• wind ; 
to boast or to disperse his stores, 
V * or rk or lo uispersc ms sioi 
n the ** ‘*^^*te of his grateful shores, 
\V makes both Indies ours j 
o hisM'f “‘‘"S’ no place is strange, 
If “alii T bo'om is the world’s exchange. 
’IT Sfeaf *’*^0 make thy stream 
as it is my theme I 
'an„ yat clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; 
Uiout rage without o’crflowiug full. 
tiVp 
World, and in his flying tovv'rs 
S^' n considered respectively to its course and 
V “f pV'ises equalled by any one in the known 
. ^ll 
■<J*'9f(|''irenpp^y°^ a small spring somewhat to the soulli- 
Gloucestershire; and, taking an 
' '“h. c, her- ... - ... - o . 
■y. St 
It navigable at Lecblade for vessels 
there 
receives the river Colne, at a dis- 
hundred and thirty-eight miles from 
V\|i’ 't’hfj.p fchlade it continues ils course north-east 
'1}* it I ‘eceives the Charwell ; after which it 
° Abingdon, and thence to Dorchester, 
Y't« ’q®°Ws k ® Thame, and continuing its 
V.^Urre. the bordei's of Berkshire. Be 
course 
. -•.'ev borders of Berkshire, Bucking- 
Essex, and Kent. In this 
‘t passes along a multitude of towns and 
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