144 best's art of angling. 



Trevel, Lon, Ncn, WellancV Darvent, Calder, 

 Wharf, Nidj Don, Swale, Hull, Ouse, and Are. 

 The rivers in Wales are reckoned above two 

 hundred, the principal of which are the Dee, 

 Wye, Conwy, Tivy, Chediayday, Cluid, Usk, 

 Tovy, Taff, and Dovy. Several rivers in Eng- 

 land run under ground and then rise again, as a 

 branch of the Medway in Kent; the Mole in 

 Surry; Hans in Staffordshire; the little rivers 

 Allen in Denbighshire, and Deverelin Wiltshire ; 

 the river Recall hides itself under ground, near 

 Elmsley in the North-Riding of Yorkshire; at 

 Ashweli in Bedfordshire, rise so many sources 

 of springs that they soon drive a mill ; at Ched- 

 der, near Axbridge in Somersetshire, is a spring 

 that drives twelve mills in a quarter of a mile. 

 In the midst of the river Nen, south of Peter- 

 borough in Northamptonshire, is a deep gulf, 

 called Medeswell, so cold, that in summer no 

 swimmer is able to endure it, yet is not frozen in 

 the winter. 



I shall now give the angler the names of the 

 rivers in our Counties. 



Bedfordshire. The Ouse navigable to Bed- 

 ford, and divides the county into two parts; the 

 Ivcl, Tica, and other smaller streams. 



Berkshire. The Thames, Isis, Kennet, Lod- 

 don, and the Lambourne; the latter, contrary to 

 all others, is always the highest in summer, and 

 lowest when winter approaches. 



Buckinghamshire. The Thames, Ouse, Coin, 

 Wickam, Amersham, Isis, Tame, and Loddon. 



Cambridgeshire. The Ouse, Cam, Welney, 

 and Neve. 



Cheshire. Principal rivers ; the Mersey, Dee, 

 Weeiock, Croke; Dan, Fulbrook, Wever, Goyte 

 Boiling, and Km gay. 



