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Title: Essex naturalist: being the journal of the Essex Field Club
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Essex Field Club
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Publisher: Buckhurst Hill, Essex, The Club
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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ke of New Rive from Lea . . o44i Lea Below Enfield Lock . . . 0*490 Intake of East London from Lea . . o433 208 THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. for the purpose of eating famous mutton pies, made by one Christopher Cat,familiarly known as Kit Cat, hence its title. Sir Godfrey Knoller painted themore distinguished of the members on one sized canvas, known ever since byartists as the Kit Cat size. We have passed the intake from the Lea of the New River Company.Here 22,500,000 gallons are daily drawn. On yon hill, to the right of the barge, is the place where Oliver Cromwellhanged a mutineer, and so stamped out a mutiny ere it could assume definiteproportions. Prompt action is occasionally of considerable value. Nearly opposite to us and under the eastern slope of the hill is the rise of theNew River—Chadwell Spring. I must explain that in the first of the excellentsketches which Mr. H. A. Cole has done for our programme, we must substitute St. Margarets Well, for the title he has given in error.
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Rye Common Pump;ng Station, New River Company, St. Margarets, Herts., seen FROM the Lea. Chadwell Spring produces a flow which ranges from a minimum of 500,000gallons per day to a maximum of 4,000,000. We are now about to order/?/// steam a/iead and proceed on our voyage ; wehave a long journey before us, and I am sure that I shall contribute more to theenjoyment of the day if I cease to talk. If you will en route occasionally refer to The River Lea up to Date, and if in doubt on any subject ask me for such in-formation as you may require, which I shall give with the greatest pleasure, we shallall get on nicely. Ware is the next place we shall reach, and the next lock is Ware Lock.This belongs to the New River Company, and is kept up by them underagreement. Before we start I shall refer to the fact, so frequently given in my evidenceelsewhere, that there is practically no pollution above the Neit; River intake. I will not say that there are no pollutions elsewhere, but I will say, as

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