[12] The traveller going by rail to-day from Paris to Calais or Boulogne, may note at the second station after Abbeville a wood upon the heights to his right, and upon his left the reclaimed valley of the Somme. The next station he passes is that of Port, with the church of the village upon his right as he leaves it, and the embankment which he sees crossing the valley floor upon his left, a mile further on, marks the passage by which Edward III. and his army forced the then broad estuary of the river. [13] See p. 45. [14] Not to be confounded with the other Noyelles upon the Somme, ten miles away. [15] It was at this moment that news was brought to King Edward of his son's peril, and that he replied "Let the child win his spurs"--sending the messenger back empty, but having care immediately afterwards to despatch reinforcement.