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The Thames

The Thames

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1718815034
ISBN13: 9781718815032
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 7 2018
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.24 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
For the purposes of this book we are dealing with the Thames between Oxford and London, though as a matter of fact, tradition has it that the Thames proper does not begin until below Oxford, where it is formed by the junction of the Thame and the Isis. Tamese (Thames) means smooth spreading water. Tam is the same root as occurs in Tamar, etc., and the es is the perpetually recurring word for water, e.g., Ouse, ooze, usquebagh. Isis is probably a back formation, from Tamesis. In Drayton's Polyolbion, we have the pretty allegory of the wedding of Thame and Isis, from which union is born the sturdy Thames.

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