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one mile stone, and runs into the Trumps' Mill River, 

 to which mill it assists in giving a head of water. 

 Many years ago, the cascade gave way, and consider 

 able damage was done in the neighbourhood. An 

 immense quantity of fish were taken in all the brooks 

 with which Trumps' Mill River communicates ; one 

 runs by the upper part of Chertsey town, into the 

 Thames ; another branch runs to Woburn Park, and 

 there dividing this park from Ham Haw, one part 

 falls into the Thames, in Chertsey mead ; the other 

 continuation, called the Bourne Brook (before men 

 tioned), passes into the Wey navigation, by "Wey- 

 bridge Bridge, and so into the Thames, at Thames 

 Lock. 



How permission to angle in Virginia Water can be 

 obtained, or whether obtainable at all, I am unable 

 to say. 



There are many ponds in the neighbourhood of 

 London, but having never taken the trouble to go to 

 them, I can give no information. Salter, however, 

 in one of his works on angling, to the best of my 

 recollection, gives full information on that head. 



As connected with pond fishing, I will mention 

 a ludicrous incident : I passed over Clapham 

 Common, on my way to dine with my friend, Mr. L., 

 who then lived near that locality ; and having ob 

 served, as I drove past, on the surface of the water of 



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