Chap. 3. 2t»<? Pradice of Angling, 273 



They meet together about Dorchefter in Oxford* 

 fbire^ and thence run united betwixt thatCounty 

 and5<?r^i,and httvfttnBuckinghamJJnre^ Middle- 

 fex^ z.ndEJfex on the one Side,and»S'/^rr)' andA>;;/ 

 on the other, wedding itfclhothQKentiJhMedway 

 in the very Jaws of the Ocean. This River is faid 

 to feel the Violence and Benefit of the Sea 

 more than any other River in Europe, ebbing 

 and flowing twice a Day, more than fixty 

 Miles. About its Banks are fo many fine 

 Towns and principal Palaces, that a foreiga 

 Poet thus writes of it. 



We faw fomany Woods and princely Bower?, 

 Sweet Fields, gay Palaces, andftately Towers, 

 So many Gardens drejl with curious Care, 

 That Thames with royal Tyber may compare. 



a. The fecond River of Note is the Se- 

 vern, which hath its Beginning in Plinilwi' 

 mon-Hill in Montgomeryfhire, and its End fe- 

 ven Miles from Briftol ; wafliing in that Space 

 the Walls of i'^r<?ic;i^//rv, Worcejier, Gloucefter^ 

 and divers other Places and Palaces of Note. 

 It receives more great Rivers, and is farther 

 navigable than the Thames, but does not equal 

 it for Quantity and Variety of Filli. 



3. The Trent ffo called, fay fome, for thirty 

 Kind of Fifhes that are found in it, or for 

 that it receives thirty leffer Rivers) having it's 

 Fountain \n Staff or dfhire, and gliding through 

 the Counties of Nottingham^ Lincoln, Leicefter, 

 and Tork, augments the turbulent Current of 

 the Humher^ the mod violent Stream of all the 

 N5 lile.. 



