32 DAYS IN DOVE DALE 



Izaak's time, and as he himself came ; and, 

 alas ! men do go, as he has gone. I, too, 

 must leave soon ; but before I go let me pause 

 for a moment to inform those of my readers 

 who know not this lovely spot, that " The 

 Dove " is not like other rivers. 1 



" It winds about, and in and out, 



With here a blossom sailing, 

 And here and there a lusty trout, 

 And here and there a grayling." 



It runs in a perfect zigzag straight from 

 each zag to each zig then suddenly turning an 

 abrupt corner straight on to another zag, and 

 so on, each stretch running for two or three 

 hundred yards, each side lined with limestone 

 mossy roqjcs and steeple-like spires, or wood- 

 clad hills coming sheer down to the water's edge, 

 leaving only a narrow space varying from one 

 to ten yards for Piscator's operations. 



In each of these stretches are two or three 

 cascades, which extend quite across the stream 

 like natural mill-dams, forming pretty waterfalls 

 of three feet or four feet deep. It is at the foot 



1 Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart.) says " The Dove" was so 

 called from the British word " dwfr " (water). Cotton 

 says it is so called from the swiftness of its current. 



