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Identifier: ourownislandsele00mackrich (find matches)
Title: Our own islands; an elementary study in geography
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Mackinder, Halford John
Subjects: Great Britain -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, G. Philip
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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nd the water of the bournewas made to fill the valley—so forming a lakecalled the Serpentine. The Ty Bourne was usedfor the lake in Regents Park, and the HackneyBrook for the lake in Victoria Park. But the most interesting of these streams wasthe Hole Bourne, or, as it has been shortened, theHolborn. Near its mouth this stream was calledthe Fleet, a word which is got from the verb to flow. You have, of course, heard the expres-sion fleet of foot. Fleet Street was the roadleading from the west to a bridge over the Fleetbrook. Look at Fig. 107. Do you see the straightroad leading by a bridge over the Thames fromLudgate Hill station? On the north side of theThames that road has been built over the Fleet,which now flows luider it in a tunnel or sewer. I want you to look very carefully on Fig. 105,at the ground sho^n just east of the Fleet. Yousee that it is solid ground and not marshy, thoughit is close to the Thames bank, it is in fact ahill, and up this hill now runs the street called
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