The Somerset Coast #270260

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.