NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 165 



These are those cultivated fields of Mighill, 

 where King Arthur's stone stands to this very 

 day. It's true, because traditional among the 

 antiquaries, and why not as true because a su- 

 perstition amongst the inhabitants, who will tell 

 you with as much confidence as they mumble 

 their pater noster, or with as much impudence 

 as you can credit with ignorance, that that very 

 stone was King Arthur's table, when his royal 

 campaign encamp'd in those fields ; which he left 

 behind him as a relique to posterity ? 



Theoph. Or rather because he could not take 

 it with him. 



Am. You will have your joke, I perceive ; 

 however He proceed to the pleasant banks of 

 Hay, where the angler, without difficulty, may 

 take a view of a large and spacious river of 

 translucid streams ; where a storm seldom in- 

 vades the shores, nor any immoderate winds 

 much to incommode them, in regard the water 

 runs most on a level, and the banks very blough ; 

 more especially when attempting the head of 

 Reven, where the angler may observe most ra- 

 pid falls and stiff streams, which are seldom or 

 never unaccommodated with trout, besides the 

 generous race of salmon, the nature of whose sex 

 and species (this opportunity presenting) invites 

 me to discover a most admirable secret. 



For as I was angling one time on a sun-shiny 



