THE FIFTH VAX continued 



Of Rivers, and some Observations of Fish 



CHAPTER XIX 



PISCATOR 



WELL, scholar, since the ways and weather do both 

 favour us, and that we yet see not Tottenham- 

 Cross, you shall see my willingness to satisfy youi 

 desire. And, first, for the rivers of this nation: 

 there be, as you may note out of Dr. Heylin's 

 Geography and others, in number three hundred 

 and twenty-five; but those of chiefest note he 

 reckons and describes as followeth. 

 ' The chief is THAMISIS, compounded of two 

 rivers, Thame and Isis ; whereof the former, rising 

 somewhat beyond Thame in Buckinghamshire, and 

 the latter near Cirencester in Gloucestershire, meet 

 together about Dorchester in Oxfordshire ; the 

 issue of which happy conjunction is Thamisis, or 

 Thames; hence it flieth betwixt Berks, Bucking, 

 hamshire, Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, and Essex : 

 and so weddeth itself to the Kentish Medway, in 

 the very jaws of the ocean. This glorious river 

 feeleth the violence and benefit of the sea more 

 than any river in Europe ; ebbing and flowing, 

 twice a day, more than sixty miles ; about whose 

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