LONDON BRIDGE TO GRAVESEND.--_By AARON WATSON._ Hogarth's Water Frolic--Billingsgate--Salesmen's Cries--The Custom House--Queen Elizabeth and the Customs--The Tower, and Tower Hill--The Pool--The Docks--Ratcliff Highway--The Thames Tunnel--In Rotherhithe--The Isle of Dogs--The Dock Labourer--Deptford and Greenwich--Woolwich Reach and Dockyard--The _Warspite_ 288 CHAPTER XII. GRAVESEND TO THE NORE.--_By J. RUNCIMAN._ Morning on the Lower Thames--Gravesend--Pilots and Watermen--A Severe Code--Tilbury and its Memories--The Marshes--Wild-fowl Shooting--Eel Boats--Canvey Island--Hadleigh Castle--Leigh, and the Shrimpers--Southend and the Pier--Sailing--Sheerness--The Mouth of the Medway--The Dockyard--The Town and its Divisions--The Nore--A Vision of Wonder--Shoeburyness--Outward Bound 337 /Table of Distances/ 368 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. _Frontispiece_.--/Cliefden Woods/. /On Title-page, Head of Thames/ (_from bas-relief on Temple Pier_). PAGES /Map of the Thames/ _To face page_ 1 _ABOVE OXFORD_:-- The Seven Springs--Thames Head--The Sources of the Thames (_Map_)--The First Bridge over the Thames--Cricklade--Inglesham Round House--Lechlade: the First Lock--Radcot Bridge--The Ferry, Bablock Hythe--Cumnor Churchyard--Stanton Harcourt Church--Eynsham Weir--Cross at Eynsham--Oxford from Godstow--The Thames from Lechlade to Oxford (_Map_) 1-32 _OXFORD TO ABINGDON_:-- The Barges--Oxford, from Headington Hill--New College, from the Gardens--St. Mary's, from the High Street--Magdalen Tower, from the Cherwell--Stone Pulpit, Magdalen--"Tom" Gateway--The Dome of the Radcliffe, from Brasenose--The 'Varsity Barge--A "Bump" at the Barges--Iffley Mill--Iffley Church--Littlemore Church and Kennington Island--Oxford to Abingdon (_Map_)--A Picnic to Nuneham--The Bridge and Cottage, Nuneham--Distant View of Abingdon 33-61 _ABINGDON TO STREATLEY_:-- Abingdon, from the River--Abingdon Bridge--Culham Church--Clifton Hampden Church--Dorchester, from Little Wittenham--Sinodun Hill and Day's Lock--Shillingford Bridge--Wallingford Church and Bridge--Moulsford Ferry--Abingdon to Streatley (_Map_)--Streatley Mill 62-84 _STREATLEY TO HENLEY_:--