Identifier: essexnaturalistb08esse (find matches)
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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; instead of doing so, we went at full steam onwards. Afternoon tea and gracefully presided over by the ladies of the party. Hotwater was available on board, and after a long exposure to the warm sunshine,the repast was much enjoyed by all present. Mr. Howard Saunders, F.L.S. (editor of Yarrells British Birds, and authorof the Illustrated Handbook of British Birds ) gave some account of the moreremarkable Birds of the district. The intake of the East London Company is at Bonders End—Kidds Weir.There was an ample supply of good water flowing. But alas ! nearly opposite
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Kidds Weir, the Intake of the East London Water C(i.miAnv.FOR Drinking Water on the Navigable Lea. The Last Intake the point was moored a most foul-smelling cargo of London refuse— manure so-called. Major Flower has no power to prevent pollution to the air ; and althoughthe water was excellent, the frequency of manure heaps placed on the banks ofthe stream—fortunately kept back from draining into it as far as is possible—and the barges full of similar filthy i-efuse, forced the conviction on all present thatthe air is not as pure as it ought to be, especially below Enfield Lock. Happily by a recent decision of the Board of Trade, a toll is to be enforcedin future ; up to the present day manure is carried on the Navigation of theLeay>-cif by Act of Parliament. It is to be hoped that this decision will lessenthe evil, which is a blot on an otherwise beautiful river. Tottenham Lock was reached at 9 p.m., and the party dismissed, leaving toa future dav a visit to Lea Bridge, whic

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