# Father Thames

Author: Higgins, Walter

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67124

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Father+Thames+Higgins&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

England is not a country of great rivers. No mighty Nile winds lazily across desert and fertile plains in its three and a half thousand miles course to the sea; no rushing Brahmaputra plunges headlong down its slopes, falling two or three miles as it crosses half a continent from icy mountain-tops to tropical sea-board. In comparison with such as these England’s biggest rivers are but the tiniest, trickling streams. Yet, for all that, our little waterways have always meant much to the land. Tyne, Severn, Humber, Trent, Thames, Mersey, Ouse—all these, with many smaller but no less well-known streams, have played their part in the making of England’s history; all these have had much to do w...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER ELEVEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/42/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWO](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/33/index.md)
- [CHAPTER EIGHT](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER SEVEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER SIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/37/index.md)
- [CHAPTER NINE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER EIGHT](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/39/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FIVE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER SEVEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER ONE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER THREE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER EIGHT](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Book III.) Thus things were when there came the great surface change](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWO](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FOUR](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER SIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER SIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER NINE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/40/index.md)
- [CHAPTER THREE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/34/index.md)
- [CHAPTER ONE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FIVE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER ONE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/32/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FOUR](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/35/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWELVE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/30/index.md)
- [CHAPTER ELEVEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/29/index.md)
- [CHAPTER SEVEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/38/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWO](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER THREE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/41/index.md)
- [BOOK III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FIVE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/36/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FOUR](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/22/index.md)
- [BOOK II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Book III.) does at Richmond. This, the proposers said, would do away](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/13/index.md)
- [BOOK I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/5/index.md)
- [BOOK II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/3/index.md)
- [BOOK III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/4/index.md)
- [BOOK I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/2/index.md)
- [BOOK III.—THE UPPER RIVER.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/1/index.md)
- [BOOK II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/18/index.md)
- [BOOK III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/father-thames-67124/chapters/31/index.md)