Title: On Surrey Hills. By a Son of the Marshes, etc. Denham Jordan.] Edited by J. A. Owen.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Anonymous; Jordan, Denham; Owen, Jean Allan; 1891. vi. 301 p.; 8 . 010358.f.28.

Title: Annals of a Fishing Village. Drawn from the notes of "A Son of the Marshes" i.e. Denham Jordan]. Edited by J. A. Owen. With plates.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Visger, Jean Allan; Jordan, Denham; 1891 1890]. viii. 289 p.; 8 . 012631.k.25.

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PREFACE. SOME of our readers and critics have complained that the localities amongst which A Son of the Marshes was brought up, and where his observations in natural history were first made, are too vaguely indicated in the books already published. To meet this objection I have, in editing the present volume, added a few topo- graphical details which will, I trust, serve to give more definiteness to the scenes therein described. JEAN A. OWEN. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. RANGING THE DYKES . . . . . . . i II. OLD GUNS AND THEIR OWNERS .... 23 III. OLD REEKS AND HIS LUGGER 45 IV. UNDER STRESS OF CIRCUMSTANCE .... 54 V. SOME WATER STUDIES 72 VI. NATURES RAIDERS 83 VII. A WATER RAIDER 105 VIII. IN SUSSEX 116 IX. UPLAND FIELDS 150 X. SOME TRAITS OF WILD LIFE 166 XI. THE PAGEANTRY OF AUTUMN 180 XII. COMMON LAND . 200 XIII. AT DAWN OF DAY 218 XIV. VOICES OF THE NIGHT 232 XV. As THE SEASONS CHANGE 245 DRIFT FROM LONGSHORE. CHAPTER I. RANGING THE DYKES. MiLTON-NEXT-SlTTiNGBOURNE, the centre about which these Marshland incidents are grouped, has played no mean part in the history of our country. It lies, says an old writer, as it were, hid among the creeks, for it is almost out of sight, as well by water as by land, and yet it is a large town, as it is a considerable port for barges, and a capital fishery for those oysters called Milton or Melton oysters, which are so valuable. It is at the mouth of the Swale opposite the Island of Sheppey, near where the waters of the Thames and the Medway meet. At the beginning of this century Milton was little more than a long straggling fishing village on the edge of the salt marshes, although it still contained some buildings which spoke of former prosperityand business activity. The hundred of Milton held its Court leet which was said to have 1