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An Historical Account of the Ancient Town and Port of Wisbech and of the Circumjacent Towns and Villages
An Historical Account of the Ancient Town and Port of Wisbech and of the Circumjacent Towns and Villages Author:William Watson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1827 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: ts V 20 HISTORY OF face of the country, and tearing up the very trees and woods with which it once abounded. If we now turn our views to the rivers, and consider the alterations occasioned by them, we shall find that the obstructions in the outfall would, in process of time, materially change the face of this extensive district; we shall, therefore, next state The Rise and Course of the Rivers passing through the Level, the Grand Outfall whereof was at Wisbech. First, the Grant, which, having its origin about Ashwell, in Hertfordshire, and bringing with it the waters of part of that county and part of Essex, passes through Cambridgeshire, and unites itself to a branch of the Ouze below Stretham Mere. The Ouse rises at a certain spring called Ouse- well, near Brackley, in Northamptonshire, and passing through part of Buckingham and Bedfordshire, descends by Huntingdon, f and enters Cambridgeshire at a place called the Hermitage, in the parish of Haddenham, near to Earith, where it formerly divided into two branches, -- the one falling by Earith below Stretham Mere, where it received the river Grant from Cambridge, and passing to Ely, and thence to Prickwillow, where the Mildenhall river falls in, ran, united with that river, to Littleport Chayre, Welney, and Shrewsnest Point. The second branch, formerly called the West Water, ran in a Ouse, slow winding through a level plain Of spacious meads, with cattle sprinkled o'er, Conducts the eye along his sinuous course Delighted. Cowprn. 1) r r/i fniy fen- northerly direction from Earith to Benwick, where it met a part...« less