If Anyone Wishes To Fare Up And Down This Portion
of the river by boat he must land and pull his craft over land, it may be trespassing in the process. No provision of any sort is made. There are no rollers, as on the Thames.......
Railway Jealousy.
What is the reason for blocking the course of a river that might be very popular and presumably useful ? Doubt- less one of the reasons why river traffic for commercial purposes......
* * * The Unhappy Ouse.
' The river in question—and others suffer similarly—is the Huntingdonshire Ouse, especially that part of it which separates the little old historic county town of Huntingdon......
The Lock Owners.
What may be the plans, policy, principles or ideas of the present owner I do not know. His dwelling-place or personality are unknown to me. Even those who live on the banks of......
Country Life
ENGLISH RIVERS. Daily for the last week or two I have seen a succession of really pitiful illustrations of the neglect of our English rivers ; and not even the mildest protest......
A Vital River.
The Ouse is a river of great national importance on many accounts. It matters much more to farmers than to fisher- men. Extensive areas, reclaimed at the cost of millions by......
Ousted Fishermen.
The general neglect is not confined to the locks. Not sn many years ago the weeds were cut regularly, and the mill- owners did much to keep the current clear and unencumbered.......
Tile First.
September the First begins a new sort of year. Football, as well as partridges, comes into the picture, ploughs supplant cutters-and-binders, and starlings swallows. But the day......
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