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these three great channels, or from 'the south-eastern 

 extremity of the county, towards the Severn, are 

 very numerous. 



THE DEE, 



JDescending from Llyn Tegid, or Bala Lake, 

 in Merionethshire, enters the county a few miles 

 below the small town of Corwen, through the pic- 

 turesque Vale of Llangollen ; and on reaching the 

 eastern side of Denbighshire, it becomes its boun- 

 dary, and forms the line of division between Eng- 

 land and Wales. Its chief tributaries are the 

 Alwen, which has its source in one of the lakes in 

 the western parts of the county ; the Ceiriog, a tor- 

 rent that descends from the slate mountains, in the 

 hundred of Chirk ; the Clyweddog, which it re- 

 ceives from the westward, a little below Bangor ; 

 and the Alyn, which, rising in the mountains about 

 Llandegla, flows northward towards Flintshire.* 



* Most anglers on the Dee were well acquainted with the 

 eccentric William Abernethy, or " Boattie," as he was more 

 frequently called. He was the oldest salmon fisher on that 

 river, and, for upwards of fifty years, had constantly passed 

 his time in angling. He was so well known upon that water, 

 that no person considered himself a perfect fisherman, or in- 

 structed in the art, without being acquainted with Boattie ; 

 and, to the last, he was so devoted to his profession, that the 

 day before he died, he directed himself to be carried to see 

 the river, in order to ascertain whether it was in good order 

 for fishing, expecting to be again enabled to kill a salmon, 

 which he had only a few days previously accomplished. 

 Old Sporting Magazine. 



