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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 mistaken, in the 

 lower part of this valley there are the re- 

 mains of an extensive establishment 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 Can- 

 terbury. And if the grayling he 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 Dorset- 

 shire, 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-wEted and the Dee ; not near Val Crusis 

 Abbey, but fifteen miles higher up, between 

 Corwen and Bala. 



PoiET. — It may have been a fish imported 

 from the Continent, and carried to a number 

 of rivers, only a few of which may have suited 



