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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, Augustus Henry, 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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al 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 jgg THE BEITISH ISLES. communication by water between London and Bristol, and many of the bulkyarticles of commerce pass along it. Newhury, lower down the Kennet, is built ona peat bed. Battles took place near it, in 1643 and 1644, during the Civil War.In the neighbourhood are Donnington Castle and Shaw House—the latter, not-withstanding the injury it suffered during the war, the most stately Elizabethanmansion in the county. Reading, a flourishing commercial town, stands on the river Kennet, 1 mile Fig. 86.—Reading.From the Ordnance Survey. Scale 1 : fi.S.3fi6.
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IMUe. 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 converted by Henry VIII. 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 NewZealand, 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 North Downs, notfar from Basingstoke, mingles its water with that of the Thames. The country Fig. 87.—Windsor.Scale 1 : 55,000.

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