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the mosses, but is in a few miles travel so clarified, 

 by the addition of several clear, and very great 

 springs, bigger than itself, which gush out of the 

 lime-stone rocks, that before it comes to my house, 

 which is but six or seven miles from it's source, 

 you will find it one of the purest crystalline streams 

 vou have seen. 



Viat. Does Trent spring in these parts ? 



Pise. Yes, in these parts ; not in this county, 

 but somewhere towards the upper end of Stafford- 

 shire, I think not far from a place called Trentham ; 

 and thence runs down not far from Stafford to Wolsley- 

 bridge, and, washing the skirts and purlieus of the 

 Forest of Needwood, runs down to Burton in the same 

 county : thence it comes into this where we now 

 are, and, running by Swarkeston and Dunnington, re- 

 ceives Derwent at Wildon ; and so to Nottingham, 

 thence to Newark, and by Gainsborough to Kingston 

 upon Hull, where it takes the name of Humber, and 

 thence falls into the sea : but that the map will best 

 inform you. 



Viat. Know you whence this river Trent derives 

 it's name ? 



Pise. No, indeed, and yet I have heard it often 

 discoursed upon, when some have given it's deno- 

 mination from the fore-named Trentham, though 

 that seems rather a derivative from it ; others have 

 said, 'tis so called from thirty rivers that fall into 

 it, and there lose their names ; which cannot be 

 neither, because it carries that name from it's very 



