The Thames: Or, Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings and Picturesque Scenery on the Banks of that Noble River, Volume 1 |
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This river takes it rise from a copious spring , called the Thames head , near Cirencester in the county of Gloucester , which is particularly described in a succeeding page . It has been very erroneously named Isis , till it is joined ...
This river takes it rise from a copious spring , called the Thames head , near Cirencester in the county of Gloucester , which is particularly described in a succeeding page . It has been very erroneously named Isis , till it is joined ...
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( ciled to any rational opinion that the Thames head , a denomination by which from a very remote period it has been distinguished , should give rise to a river called Isis , and after having run a very large proportion of its course ...
( ciled to any rational opinion that the Thames head , a denomination by which from a very remote period it has been distinguished , should give rise to a river called Isis , and after having run a very large proportion of its course ...
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By some writers it has been called Greekislade , or Grekelade ; which names they have fancifully derived from the accounts given by some of the monkish historians , of a school or college , for the cultivation of the Greek language ...
By some writers it has been called Greekislade , or Grekelade ; which names they have fancifully derived from the accounts given by some of the monkish historians , of a school or college , for the cultivation of the Greek language ...
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Nothing curious or inviting belongs to it ; but on an elevated spot of Cricklade Common , called Windmill - hill , about a mile from the town , on the road to CRICKLADE . Malmsbury , the view is equally varied and CRICKLADE .
Nothing curious or inviting belongs to it ; but on an elevated spot of Cricklade Common , called Windmill - hill , about a mile from the town , on the road to CRICKLADE . Malmsbury , the view is equally varied and CRICKLADE .
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The ground on which it stands was formerly called the Lade , which conjoined with that of the contiguous river Lech , gives the compound name which the place bears . Here the Thames is so much encreased by the streams which flow into it ...
The ground on which it stands was formerly called the Lade , which conjoined with that of the contiguous river Lech , gives the compound name which the place bears . Here the Thames is so much encreased by the streams which flow into it ...
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| Title | The Thames: Or, Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings and Picturesque Scenery on the Banks of that Noble River, Volume 1 The Thames: Or, Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings and Picturesque Scenery on the Banks of that Noble River, William Bernard Cooke |
| Author | William Bernard Cooke |
| Publisher | Vernor, Hood & Sharpe and W.B. Cooke, 1811 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Mar 28, 2007 |
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