310 CATHEDRALS AND SALMON. 



fact wliicli I now wish to bring forward to tlie notice of 

 the pubhc, as I do not think the idea has ever yet been 

 worked out. 



I find that at the present moment there are in En^^- 

 land twenty-five Bishoprics and two Archbishoprics. I 

 will now proceed to state the rivers upon Avhicli the 

 various cathedral towns are situated. The See of York 

 (founded a.d. 622) is situated upon the Ouse ; Dm-liam 

 (founded about 1040) upon the Wear ; Exeter (founded 

 A.D. 636), upon the Exe ; St. Asaph (a.d. 560), on the 

 Elwy; Hereford (a.d. 676), on the Wye; Llandafi' (be- 

 ginning 6th century), upon the Taft'; Salisbury, on the 

 Avon ; Carlisle (a.d. 686), upon the Eden ; Worcester 

 (a.d. 680), upon the Severn ; Gloucester (a.d. 657), upon 

 the Severn; Chester, upon the Dee; Eipon, upon the 

 Ure : so that no less than twelve cathedral towns out of 

 twenty-five are built upon rivers in which salmon are 

 caught in more or less quantities at the present time. 



The following cathedral towns stand upon rivers from 

 which salmon have been exterminated : — Canterbury 

 (founded a.d. 597), upon the Stour ; London (1st 

 Bishop Mellitus, 610), on the Thames ; Oxford (distinct 

 Bishopric from Lincoln, 1545), on the Thames ; Win- 

 chester (founded a.d. 684), on the Itclien ; Bath (now 

 with Wells) (founded a.d. 607), on the Avon ; Eochester 

 (founded a.d. 604), on the Medway. Six more cathedral 

 towns may, therefore, be "added to our list of cathedi-als 

 on salmon rivers, only tliat the fish have been extermi- 

 •nated from them by human agency. These agencies 

 are as follows : — In the case of the Stour, mill weirs and 

 pollutions ; Thames,-'- weirs and pollutions ; Itchen, mill 

 weirs; Avon, weirs and manufactories; Medway, weirs. 



* I trust, however, that the exertions we are making to restock 

 his river will cause it to become a salmon river again in our time. 



