# The Settlers at Home

Author: Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876; Kronheim, Joseph Martin, 1810-1896 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23264

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Settlers+at+Home+Martineau&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Two hundred years ago, the Isle of Axholme was one of the most remarkable places in England. It is not an island in the sea. It is a part of Lincolnshire--a piece of land hilly in the middle, and surrounded by rivers. The Trent runs on the east side of it; and some smaller rivers formerly flowed round the rest of it, joining the Humber to the north. These rivers carried down a great deal of mud with them to the Humber, and the tides of the Humber washed up a great deal of sea-sand into the mouths of the rivers; so that the waters could not for some time flow freely, and were at last prevented from flowing away at all: they sank into the ground, and made a swamp of it--a swamp of many mile...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-settlers-at-home-23264/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-settlers-at-home-23264/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-settlers-at-home-23264/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-settlers-at-home-23264/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-settlers-at-home-23264/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-settlers-at-home-23264/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-settlers-at-home-23264/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-settlers-at-home-23264/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-settlers-at-home-23264/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-settlers-at-home-23264/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-settlers-at-home-23264/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-settlers-at-home-23264/chapters/12/index.md)