The Fighting Veres
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ISBN13: 9781458953278
Paperback|9781458953278
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. THE HOME OF THE VERES. The Veres came from the lovely wooded valleys of the Soulles and the Syenne, in the Cotentin, to make their homes in the basins of the Stour and the Colne. The Stour rises near the borders of Cambridgeshire, and flows eastward into its estuary at Harwich, while the Colne, with a shorter course, and flowing nearly parallel for some distance, turns south into its long estuary. Between the two rivers and the German Ocean is the peninsula comprised in the Tendring Hundred; and, higher up, the Lexden and Hinchford Hundreds. In every part of this region the powerful Earls of Oxford owned manors and whole villages; and their badges and other memorials constantly occur in the walls, or windows, or woodwork of the churches. The Stour has a course of about fifty miles, with a catchment basin some fifteen miles across; and the Colne flows over thirty-two miles, with a width of basin of three to six miles; the whole width of the two basins being about twenty-two miles. In the valleys and on the slopes of the hills the scenery is picturesque, and there are many very pleasing views. The valley of the Stour was the native place of two famous English painters, Gainsborough and Constable, the former born at Sudbury, the latter at EastBergholt, and it has been suggested that the beauties of the woods and lanes and meadows of the valley may have awakened the genius as well as exercised the pencils of these great artists. The scene of my childhood, said Constable, made me a painter. The beauty of the scenery, its gentle declivities, its luxuriant meadow flats, sprinkled with flocks and herds, its well-cultivated uplands, its woods and rivers, with numerous scattered villages and churches, farms and picturesque cottages, all impart to this delightful cou...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458953278 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458953270 |
| Weight | 1.20 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.83 In |
| List Price | $25.41 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 372 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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