RAMBLES BY RIVERS. THE THAMES. BY JAMES THORNE. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: C. COX, 12, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND. 1849. RAMBLES BY RIVERS. THE THAMES. CHAPTER XVI. THE MEAD OF COUNCIL. BEFORE recommencing his journey, the rambler ought, perhaps, to be reminded that there are a great many places in the vicinity of Windsor and Eton, but at a little distance from the Thames, and consequently not within the limits of this volume, which well deserve a visit, either on account of their interest or their beauty, or of both combined. Although we cannot turn aside to visit them, a few may just be mentioned. On the Windsor side, there is a delightful stroll through the Great Park and Windsor Forest to Binfield, where, in the house of his father, Pope spent his youthful years, and wrote the greater part of his early poetry. The house, his "paternal cell," as he styles it in the well-known lines, VOL. II. "A little house, with trees a row, B |