Charles G. Harper 
Somerset Coast [PDF ebook] 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The foreshore of a great part of this coast is more or less muddy; the Severn, which you shall find to be a tea or coffee-coloured river, even at Shrewsbury a hundred miles or so up along its course, from the particles of earth held in suspension, depositing much of this, and the even more muddy rivers Avon and Parret contributing a larger proportion. The Severn Sea, as poetical and imaginative writers style this estuary, known to matter – Oi – fact geographers as the Bristol Channel, is therefore apt to be of a grey hue, except under brilliant sunshine.