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sake ; and I think you have done wrong to 

 relinquish this idea, for, as far as my recol- 

 lection serves me, the rivers that contain it 

 are near the ruins of great monasteries. 

 The Avon, near Salisbury; the Ure, near 

 Fountain's Abbey; the Wye, near the great 

 Abbey of Tintern; and, if I am not mis- 

 taken, in the lower part of this valley there 

 are the remains of an extensive establish- 

 ment of friars. 



Hal. — But there are rivers near the ruins 

 of some of the most magnificent establish- 

 ments of this kind in Europe, and those 

 nearest the continent, where the grayling is 

 not found ; for instance, in the Stour, at 

 Canterbury. And if the grayling be an 

 imported fish, it is wonderful that it should 

 not be found in the rivers in Kent, and 

 along the south-west coast of England, — as 

 in Dorsetshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall, 

 — where the monastic establishments were 

 numerous; and why it should be found in 

 some rivers in the mountainous parts of 

 Wales — as in that near Llan-wrted and the 

 Dee ; not near Val Crusis Abbey, but fif- 



