CHAPTER II.

Estuary of the Humber--Sunk Island--Land _versus_ Water--Dutch Phenomena--Cleathorpes--Grimsby--Paul--River Freaks--Mud-- Stukeley and Drayton--Fluvial Parliament--Hull--The Thieves' Litany--Docks and Drainage--More Dutch Phenomena--The High Church --Thousands of Piles--The Citadel--The Cemetery--A Countryman's Voyage to China--An Aid to Macadam 5