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Of the great river of England whose course from its earliest source, near Cirencester, to where it rolls calm, equable, and full, through the magnificent bridges of our splendid metropolis, giving and reflecting beauty,* presents so grand an image of power in repose it is not now my purpose to speak; nor am I about to expatiate on that still nearer and dearer stream, the pellucid Loddon, although to be rowed by one dear and near friend up those transparent and meandering waters, from where they sweep at their extremest breadth under the lime-crowned terraces of the Old Park at Aberleigh, to the pastoral meadows of Sandford, through which the narrowed current wanders so brightly now impeded by beds of white water-lilies, or feathery-blossomed bulrushes, or golden flags now overhung by thickets of the rich wayfaring tree, with its wealth of glorious berries, redder and more transparent than rubies now spanned from side to side by the fantastic branches of some aged oak; although to be rowed along that clear stream, has long been amongst the choicest of my summer pleasures, so exquisite is the scenery, so perfect and so unbroken the solitude.
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