104 THE ANGLER S GUIDE. 



The London Angler has but seldom the pleasure of 

 bringing home a dish of Trout caught in either the 

 river Thames or Lea ; for those rivers, hovi'ever fa- 

 mous they may have been, at present contain very 

 few 5 but those are very large and fat ; some weighing 

 more than ten pounds. There are, certainly, many good 

 Trout streams within twenty miles of the metropolis, 

 but they are all private property. Yet here the gen- 

 tleman Angler is seldom refused a day's fair fishing. 

 The river Wandle, particularly at Carshalton, in Sur- 

 rey, has numerous fine Trout ; and, again, at Merton- 

 mills, &c., till you arrive at Wandsworth. The little 

 river, called Ravensbourn, running from or by Syden- 

 ham, Lewisham, &c., to the Kent-road, Greenwich, 

 has Trout 5 also the Darent, or Dartford-creek, may 

 boast of very fine Trout ; and at Crayford, Bexley, 

 Foot's Cray, Paul's Cray, &c., and near the powder- 

 mills, through and near Darent, and Horton, to Far- 

 ningham, in Kent ; also near Hertford, in the waters 

 belonging to Earl Cowper, Mr. Baker, and other gen- 

 tlemen ; and at Wades-mill 5 and in the river Colne, 

 near St. Alban's -, and at Whet Hamstead, &c. At 

 Rickman sworth and Watford, in Hertfordshire, and 

 its neighbourhood, are several good Trout streams, 

 and from thence to Uxbridge, in Middlesex ; at the 

 latter place, the Angler may indulge himself in angling 

 for Trout, by paying for board and lodging, at the 

 Crown and Cushion, or at the White Horse inns. 



