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When all the riches of the globe beside / / Flow'd in to thee with every tide; / / When all that nature did thy soil deny, / / The growth was of thy fruitful industry; / / When all the proud and dreadful sea, / / And all his tributary streams, / / A constant tribute paid to thee, / / Extended Thames. / / COWLEY.
The country through which Robin travelled on his journey to London presented an aspect very different from that which it now assumes. Blackheath was noted for highwaymen; and there was a fair and reasonable chance of being robbed and murdered between Greenwich and London. The Ranger never paused from the time he set out until he found himself under a portion of the long brick-wall that still divides the richly ornamented park from the arid and unfertilised heath. He sat down beneath its shadow, and regaled himself with a morsel of ship-biscuit and a mouthful of brandy; then undid the fastening of his wallet, and selected from amid its contents a neatly and skilfully made hump, which, having previously removed his coat, he dexterously transferred to his shoulder, and then donned a jacket into which the hump fitted with extraordinary exactness.