74 LAKES AND RIVERS, 



the Lake of Geneva unmixed and uncontaminated. 

 In Homer there is the same idea respecting Titaresius. 

 Pope says 



" The pleasing Titaresius glides, 

 And into Peneus rolls his easy tides ; 

 Yet o'er the silver surface pure they flow, 

 The sacred stream unmixed with streams below. 

 Sacred and awful ! from the dark abodes 

 Styx pours them forth, the awful oath of gods." 



To call forth the embodiment and personification of 

 the grand objects in Nature, one must inhabit, at least 

 in thought, those regions where rivers, lakes, moun- 

 tains, and grand sky-sights abound; for where can be 

 met with in poetry the dull plain, the insignificant 

 down even, or the commercial dwellings where man's 

 works are the chief objects in view, not those of the 

 Creator ; and human contrivance fails to inspire grand 

 conceptions ? We need great objects far above us to 

 suggest great ideas. 



The Eden is a river from whence comes much good 

 salmon, but like all the other rivers of our country, 

 before the revival offish protection, and attention to the 

 state of the fisheries, much diminution in the supply had 

 occurred. In 1866 a correspondent of Land and 

 Water writes : " Mr. Parker caught with the casting- 

 rod five fine salmon on Saturday and five on Monday. 

 I caught one yesterday with the casting-rod, weighing 

 twenty-five pounds. The river Eden is swarming with 

 salmon." This fine fish throws all other river fish, at 

 least in England, into the shade. 



The Eden meets the Calder and Petrie rivers near 

 the city of Carlisle, and flows into the Solway Firth ; 



