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the wide part of a river where it nears the sea and fresh & salt water mix
- It lay very high upon a turfy down, and looking north-eastward before I entered it, I was surprised to see a large estuary, or even creek, where I judged Wandsworth and Battersea must once have been.Chapter 8 (3% in)
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