Yet there was the riverand no doubt the Thames, for it was the width of the Thames and had the curves of it, if you can imagine the Thames in that particular spot without a city around it, without any bridges, and the Embankment fallen in.

But indeed the Thames was a wonderful sight that year!

The Thames is witness of thy tyranny, Whose waves thou dost exhaust for winter show'rs.

The Thames, launched in 1815, was the first true steam-boat the river had seen.