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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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market-towns in the Berkshire Downs,which at the ancient municipal borough of Wallingford approach close to theThames. The Kennet, on first entering the county from Wiltshire, waters the old townof Hungerford, a favourite resort of the angler, the river being famous for itstrout, and the fisheries yielding a handsome revenue to the corporation. TheKennet and Avon Canal passes the town. It affords the most direct line of 158 THE BEITISH ISLES. communication by water bctv^^ecn London and Bristol, and many of the bulkyarticles of commerce pass along it. Nenhury, lower down the Kennet, is built ona peat bed. Battles took place near it, in 1G43 and 1044, during the Civil War.In the nei^libourliood are Donnington Castle and Shaw House—the latter, not-withstanding the injury it suliered during the war, the most stately Elizabethanmansion in the county. Beading, a flourishing commercial town, stands on the river Kennet, 1 mile Fig. 86.—Reading.From the Ordnance Survey. Scale 1 : n:i..?RR.
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iMile. above its junction with the Thames. It is a place of considerable historical fame,battles having been fought in its neighbourhood, and Parliaments held within itswalls. But the only object likely to interest the antiquary is the remains of aBenedictine abbey founded in 1121, and com-erted by Henry YIII. into a royalpalace. At the present day Reading is known chiefly on account of its biscuitfactory, which dispatches train-loads of them daily to every quarter of theglobe. There does not probably exist an article of food more widely dispersed BEEKSHIEE. 159 than Reading biscuits, for they are eaten everywhere, from Alaska to jNewZealand, and from Greenland to the Cape of Good Hope. Reading also exportsseeds for flowers, and has an iron foundry. Below the Town of Biscuits the Loddon, born in the Xorth Downs, notfar from Basingstoke, mingles its water with that of the Thames. The country Fig. 87.—WiNPSoR.Scale 1: 55,000.

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