Their progress at first was good, but as they neared the central portion of the water they were swept many yards downstream for one that they made in a transverse direction.

VII THE FANTASTICS Downstream from The Pool, a little way below Shadwell, an uncouth row of dilapidated dwellings in those days stoodor, better, squatted, like a mute company of draggletail cronesatop a river-wall whose ancient blocks, all ropy with the slime of centuries, peered dimly out through groups of crazy spiles at the restless pageant of Thames-life.

" THE FOX AND THE HEDGEHOG A Fox, in swimming across a rapid river, was swept away by the current and carried a long way downstream in spite of his struggles, until at last, bruised and exhausted, he managed to scramble on to dry ground from a backwater.

It is easier to drift downstream than up.

It was proposed to build a sawmill in the forest, and ship the lumber downstream to the great lake.

Illustration #5 "Roy dived after the key-bar" When we got up to the mill at North Bridgeboro, he got the barge and started downstream with the barge alongside.