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growing more dense, and his eye will fall more frequently 

 on neat well-built villages, in most of which he will find 

 everything necessary for his comfort and convenience, 

 when the fatigues of the day are over, of good quality 

 and extremely reasonable in price. 



When the Angler arrives at Carennac, which is situ- 

 ated on the left bank of the Dordogne, he must put up 

 his rod, and step into the little town for a brief interval. 

 He will detect amongst the vast remains of an old 

 abbey of the order of Cluny, some specimens of unrivalled 

 sculpture ; but he will be still more interested when he 

 learns that the fourth story of that square tower which 

 has already attracted his attention, contains the once 

 favourite retreat of the celebrated Fenelon, who composed 

 in it some of his finest works. It is true there is little 

 now remaining besides the four walls and an ornamented 

 chimney-piece; but every stone is covered over with 

 the names of enthusiastic visitors, who have thus paid 

 their passing homage to this exquisite and amiable 

 genius. 



When the Dordogne arrives within about twelve miles 

 of the town of Bergerac, it receives a great addition to 

 its volume from the waters of the river Vexere, which has 

 a noble range of full one hundred miles. This large 

 tributary takes its rise in the department of Correze, a 

 little above a village called Millevache; but before it 

 reaches this place, it branches out into several small 

 streams, in almost all of which trout will be found, 

 although not of any very great size. At the town of 

 Brive, the Vexere receives the waters of the Correze, 

 which flows a distance of about five-and-twenty miles 

 from its source near the parent stream. This tributary 

 is also valuable in the estimation of the angler, as the 



