All the others hide round corners, and merely peep at the river down one street: my thanks to them for being so considerate, and leaving the river-banks to woods and fields and water-works.
Even Reading, though it does its best to spoil and sully and make hideous as much of the river as it can reach, is good-natured enough to keep its ugly face a good deal out of sight.
Caesar, of course, had a little place at Walton--a camp, or an entrenchment, or something of that sort.

Caesar was a regular up-river man.

Also Queen Elizabeth, she was there, too.

You can never get away from that woman, go where you will.

Cromwell and Bradshaw (not the guide man, but the King Charles's head man) likewise sojourned here.