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of one hundred and sixty miles, from its source, near the 

 village of Millevache, in the department of Correze. 

 About five and twenty miles below its source, the Vienne 

 washes the old town of Limoges, which was an important 

 place in the time of the Komans. The church of St. 

 Etienne, the public library, the cabinet of antiquities, and 

 the fountain d'Aigoulene, are all deserving of a few 

 hours' attention. 



Near this town, the Vienne receives the waters of the 

 Thorion, which runs a course of nearly fifty miles, and 

 will afford the angler good sport. The country through 

 which it flows is most delightful, and cannot fail to make 

 a deep and lasting impression on the mind of the 

 wanderer who is susceptible of the charms of nature, 

 and the beauties of lovely rural scenery. 



It may be as well to observe here, that when the 

 angler is at Limoges, he is but a very short distance from 

 the source of the Charente, an important stream well 

 supplied with trout, which falls into the sea at Rochefort, 

 and which we shall afterwards describe more minutely. 

 There is a direct main road which crosses the upper 

 water of this river, at the distance of ten or twelve miles 

 from Limoges. In fact, the Vienne and the Charente 

 run parallel for some distance; and at a village called 

 Chabanais, near the town of Rochechouart, approach 

 within a couple of miles of each other. Thus the angler 

 can cross from the one river to the other, without incon- 

 venience or loss of time. 



At the small town of Confolens, where there is a public 

 library containing upwards of thirteen thousand volumes, 

 the Vienne assumes an appearance at once beautiful and 

 imposing. A little below this place, it receives a small 

 stream which traverses but a short space of country, and 



