1 62 LAKES AND RIVERS, 



of a most singular shape, it was barely two feet long, 

 yet it weighed 20 Ib." 



But heavy as 40 Ib. weight may appear for a sal- 

 mon, it is said that forty years ago, they were taken 

 as heavy as 75 Ib. This writer of 1867, says that 

 " the river was positively alive with salmon, making 

 their way up. The other day people were standing 

 all up the quay-side and on the bridge at Newcastle 

 watching them. Near Hawks' works some timber was 

 moored and a couple of salmon were seen to jump 

 clean out of the water and fall upon the raft ; they 

 were soon captured. Three tons weight were said to 

 have been taken one day near Lemington, four miles 

 above Newcastle." 



There are at least three rivers called Derwent in 

 England, but the most important and interesting is 

 that which rises in Borrowdale, in the county of Cum- 

 berland, and flows into the lake known as the Derwent- 

 water, and thence into the Bassenthwaite Water, from 

 whence it issues, and passing Cockermouth enters the 

 Irish Sea at Workington. The Greta, a small river 

 which runs into the Derwent, is yet of sufficient 

 volume after heavy rains, when floods are high, to 

 turn back the river Derwent, and cause a great accu- 

 mulation in the lake. The four miles' distance be- 

 tween Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite is a famous 

 fishing-ground, protected during the season by the 

 Angling Association. This is a part of the country 

 equalling in romantic beauty and celebrity any part 

 of our favoured isle. Derwentwater is about a mile 

 and a half across its widest part, and is about four 

 miles long. There are several wooded islets in 



