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Description of the high Stream of Arundel, The Heads and Rising Thereof, The Sundry Kinds of Fishes Therein in their several Haunts, The Fishermen, Their Care & Service in Preserving Fish, etc , by William Barttelot and Joseph Fowler, M.A., published 1929 (Nature and Archaeology Circle, Littlehampton Extra Publications) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
Review in Sussex Notes and Queries, August 1929:This is one of those books, unfortunately only to rare, in which one of the men of old has set down, not only his traditions and inferences about the past, but also much about what was the present to him. It will be indispensable to future workers on the topography of the Arun Valley; and part, at least, will appeal to those who, whether they are interested in archaeology or no, find pleasure in the writings of men like Gilbert White. We may regret that this seventeenth century Water Bailiff, who wrote a description of his duties and the scene of them for the guidance of his successors, has not recorded his own name; but, nameless as he is, he is a more living figure to us than most of the country squires he mentions can ever be. If his archaeology, and particularly his etymology, are not up to modern standards, we have Mr. Fowler's very adequate notes to correct them ; if we seek more information, about the contemporaries he talks of, we find his passing references amplified by a quantity of genealogical notes supplied by Mr. John Comber; if he has once been guilty of a piece of " fine writing " which resembles bad blank verse, it serves to remind us that he was human. The get-up of the book deserves a word of praise. Paper and typography are excellent, and the indispensable map combines something of the picturesqueness of the seventeenth century with the accuracy of the twentieth. Both Mr. Fowler and the Nature and Archaeology Circle are to be congratulated on this fresh source-book of our local topography.