RIVER THAMES. 



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Punt-fishing. 



The River Thames,"^ and its Fishery. 



The noble Thames, for ships and Fishes fam'd. 

 The Queen of Rivers, by the poet nam'd. 



This river consists, principaUy, of the united streams 

 of the Isis and Thame. The former, rising on the 

 confines of Gloucestershire, a little to the south-west 

 of Cirencester, becomes navigable at Lechdale : near 

 Oxford it receives the Charwel, and, continuing its 

 course by Abingdon to Dorchester, unites with the 

 Thame. After this junction, the united stream con- 

 tinues its course by Wallingford, Reading, Marlow, 

 Henley, Eton, Windsor, Hampton, Richmond, Kew, 

 and Brentford, to London ; and, below London-bridge, 

 is covered, for several miles, with vast numbers of 



* The white marks, in the annexed map of tlie River Thames, 

 across, are bridges ; and the white dots or marks, in the middle, 

 are islands, commonly called aights. 



