Crossword-Solution: TOWPATHS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

For preventing offences against decency by persons using the River Thames, and the banks and towpaths thereof, or any land acquired by the Conservators under the provisions of this Act.

For preventing disorderly conduct, or the use of obscene, scandalous, or abusive language to the annoyance of persons using the said River Thames or the banks or towpaths thereof, or any land acquired by the Conservators under the provisions of this Act.

When this was done half the party of natives swam to the farther bank, carrying ropes attached to the raft, and then the two sections hauled their wares against the sluggish current, tramping along towpaths which must have been trodden by several generations of their forebears.

Another perplexity not much alluded to in these papers arose from the fact that, though the bed of the _stream_ was a highway for the people, the _banks_ belonged to the owners of the adjoining lands; hence many struggles between the bargemen and landowners over the use of the towpaths.

Dangling his legs and gnawing carrots, he crossed Paris by tortuous streets, empty save for milk cans, and never stopped till he reached the banks of the Saint-Martin canal, with its towpaths and little low houses like a Flemish port.