chap, xix.] THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 235 



THE FIFTH DAY. 



chap. xix. Of several Rivers, and some Observations 

 of Fish. 



PlSCATOR. 



\\ ell, 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 your 

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

 there be, as you may note out of Doctor 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 some- 

 what beyond Thame in Buckinghamshire, and the 

 latter near Cirencester in Gloucestershire, meet toge- 

 ther about Dorchester in Oxfordshire ; the issue of 

 which happy conjunction is the Thamisis, or Thames. 

 Hence it flieth betwixt Berks, Buckinghamshire, Mid- 

 dlesex, Surrey, Kent and Essex, and so weddeth him- 

 self 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 banks are so many fair towns, 

 and princely palaces, that a German Poet thus truly 

 spake : 



Tot Campos, etc. 



