Mehalah

By Sabine Baring-Gould

Book Overview

Between Mersea and the Blackwater were several flat hol ms or islands, some under water at high-tides, others only just standing above it, and between these, the winding waterways formed a labyrinth which made pursuit difficult. The traffic was carried on with an audacity and openness unparalleled elsewhere. Al though there was a coastguard station at the month of the estuary, on Mersea 'Hard, ' yet goods were run even in open day, under the very eyes of the revenue men. Each public-house on the island, and on the mainland near a creek, obtained its entire supply of wine and spirits from contraband vessels.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851152155
• ISBN13: 9780851152158
• Release Date: September 1983
• Publisher: Academy Chicago Pub
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.