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Eden, still maintain their long-established character ; and 

 on the other side of the country, the north and south Tyne 

 have not entirely lost their salmon, and certainly not their 

 trout Above Newcastle, the Wansbeck, the Coquet, 

 Breamish and Till, keep up the reputation of the border 

 streams for trout angling. The Severn I have not passed 

 by intentionally. But it is as much a Welsh as an English 

 stream, having a decidedly Welsh origin, and by its 

 tributaries watering a good deal of Welsh country. At 

 any rate, I do not mention it last because it is least, for we 

 have to thank the Severn for some of the unsurpassed 

 grayling rivers of Worcestershire and Herefordshire. The 

 Teme and the Arrow, with the Lugg, a tributary of the 

 Wye, are not second to those of any part of England for 

 the quality and quantity of their grayling. On the eastern 

 coast of England, other than the trout streams of the 

 border, there are some coarse fish rivers in Essex and 

 Suffolk, and three particularly good general angling 

 streams, namely, the Ouse (Bedfordshire and Huntingdon- 

 shire), which is famous for its bream and pike, the Nen, and 

 Welland. In east Anglia there is a special description of 

 angling, to which reference will be made in another portion 

 of this pamphlet, while beyond the Wash there is the fen 

 country, with the Ancholme and Witham ; upon these the 

 Sheffield anglers swoop in their hundreds, and, when 

 fishing matches arc arranged, by their thousands, during 

 the summer season, and, spite of the rows of rods, un- 

 commonly good baskets are occasionally taken away. 



The angling of England is more prosaic, taking it as a 

 whole, than in either of the other countries that compose 

 the national union. Until we get considerably north of 

 the Trent, and within measurable distance of the lakes and 

 mountains of Cumberland, our landscape scenery is softly 



