The Challenge to Sirius (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Challenge to Sirius The River Rother, rising in the springs of the marshes under Rotherfield, oozed sluggishly along the rim of Sussex - through beds of stooping reeds, under the branches of willows, by endless water-meadows and spongy pastures, by farms with red roofs and black walls, by mills and dams and locks and sluices and waterings, till it came at last, all brothed with mud, to the open sea at Rye, where the dead ships stuck their bones up through the sand. Its tributaries were known in the district as Sewers, the largest being the Reading Sewer, which joined the river just beyond Methersham. The Reading Sewer was Kentish all the way, for at this point the Rother was one with the Kent Ditch and a boundary between the two counties. Not far beyond Reedbed it turned south, and was well in Sussex all the rest of its way to the sea. At Fivewatering it joined the Royal Military Canal, which ran north till it met the eastward curve of the Reading Sewer at Appledore. Thus an island was formed by these three streams and the marshes through which they flowed. The Isle of Oxney was a little pip of a county wedged between Sussex and Kent. It belonged properly to Kent, but held itself aloof. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.