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Excerpt from The Stream of Pleasure: A Narrative of a Journey on the Thames From Oxford to London
It was only a pair-oared skiff, shorter and broader than those generally seen on the Thames - a family boat, an old river man called it with contempt; but then it had a green waterproof canvas cover which stretched over three iron hoops and converted it for all practical pur poses into a small, a very small, house-boat. By a complicated arrangement of strings the canvas could be so rolled up and fastened on top as-theoretically - not to interfere with our view of the river banks on bright days; or it could be let down to cover the entire boat from stem to bow - an umbrella by day, a hotel by night.
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