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thirty-five brace. The then Sir Thomas Dyke be 

 haved most hospitably and kindly to these gentle 

 men, and was much interested in the result of the 

 match, which took place a short time previous to the 

 decease of the baronet ; therefore, I presume, must 

 have been about 1846. 



Virginia "Water, the most beautiful lake near 

 London, is only a short distance from Windsor. It 

 is well stocked with fish j and his Majesty George 

 the Fourth used often to amuse himself there, with 

 angling. This water has one source, from a spring 

 in a large pond in Cranbourn Wood, near Ascot 

 Heath, which supplies four or five ponds in Sunning 

 Hill Park. From Sunning Hill wells a stream runs, 

 which joins that from Sunning Hill Park, about 

 Bucket Hill ; from thence it expands, and rims 

 through Windsor Great Park, into the east end of 

 Virginia Water. In Windsor Great Park, near the 

 Lodge, is a large lake, which, after forming three or. 

 four long ponds, also passes into Virginia Water, on 

 its northern side, near where the waters from Sun 

 ning Hill enter. To the west of the Great Lodge is 

 a long pond, communicating with one much larger, 

 from whence there is a narrow cut to the extreme 

 north point of the other end of Virginia Water. 

 The superfluity of the whole falls over a cascade, and 

 passes under the Bagshot Itoad, this side the twenty- 



