The England and Holland of the Pilgrims - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER I SCROOBY Nottinghamshire thrusts up its northern angle, like a blunt spear-head some fifteen miles in depth, between Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, where they come together below the junction of the Ouse and the Trent to form the Humber. The point of contact of these counties is very nearly in the same latitude with the southern extremity of the opening through which the Humber pours into the German Ocean, and is about forty-five miles due west from it. A range of hills stretches for about fifty miles almost directly north from Grantham and Lincoln, until it pushes the channel of the Humber northward at West Halton and Winteringham. The Trent, with its affluents, chains the basin lying west of these hills and between them and those of Sheffield and the West Riding of York. For twenty-five or thirty miles southwest from the Humber, this basin for the most part is broad and shallow, as if it had been the bottom of a lake. It contains many wide stretches of meadows and fruitful fields, now well drained but in old times swamp lands, the favorite haunts of all manner of wild creatures loving moist places. The Trent lies well over towards the eastern side of this valley, skirting the western base of the hills. Its sluggish tributaries, the Idle and the Ryton, extend southward and westward; the former towards Nottingham and Newstead Abbey, the latter enriching itself from the springs of the border of the adjacent shire, and emptying into the Idle about six miles south-southeast of the junction of the three counties. The tongue of fenny land in the midst of encompassing moors, formed by the confluence at an acute angle of gently rolling hills within eyeshot on either side, and once admirably situated for hunting--being within easy ride of...