Distance from /---------^---------\ THAMES LOCK GODALMING m. f. m. f. Godalming 20 1 0 0 Catshail Lock 19 3 0 0 Unsted Lock 18 3 1 6 Broadford Bridge 17 5 2 6 Shalford Railway Bridge 17 0 3 0 St. Catherine's Lock 16 5 3 4 St. Catherine's Ferry 16 3 3 6 Guildford Lock 15 5 4 4 Guildford Bridge 15 4 4 5 Stoke Lock 12 4 7 5 Bower's Lock 11 5 6 4 Trigg's Lock 9 5 10 0 Scud Heath 9 1 11 5 Worsfold's Gates 8 7 11 2 Paper Court Lock 7 3 12 6 Newark Lock 6 1 14 0 Pirford Lock 5 2 14 0 South-Western Railway Bridge 3 0 17 1 New Haw Lock 2 4 17 0 Cox's Lock 1 5 18 4 Weybridge Lock 1 0 19 1 Thames Junction Lock 0 0 20 1 APPENDIX. _THE EARLY HISTORY OF BOAT RACING AT THE UNIVERSITIES._[23] [23] Reprinted from _Land and Water_ of December 17, 1881. The history of early college boat racing is not strictly that of the University boat race itself, but it is closely wound up with it, and it was, moreover, the origin of that aquatic rivalry between the two Universities which led to the first match of 1829. Oxford had inaugurated eight-oared rowing; that introduced inter-college bumping races. Cambridge followed suit and established similar races, and hence arose the constant study of aquatics which produced the first match. For these reasons, we think that the history here given will be read with interest by all University oarsmen, the more so because it, to the best of our knowledge, has never before appeared in print. No official record of their early races has been preserved; the oldest boating record in Oxford is the Brasenose Club Book, dating 1837. That of the O.U.B.C. commences with its establishment, 1839. The 'Charts' of the boat races from 1837, published by Messrs. Spiers & Sons, and which were not invented till after the year 1850, obtain the retrospective racing, prior to the time when they first appeared, from the MS. records of the B.N.C. book, the contents of which were communicated to the publishers by the late Rev. T. Codrington. But prior to 1837 all is blank. For the lost history here unearthed we are indebted to the reminiscences and diaries of oarsmen of those days still in the land of the living.