PART IV. 



ENGLAND AND WALES, SCOTLAND, 

 AND IRELAND. 



Island of bliss! amid the subject seas, 

 That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up, 

 At once the wonder, terror, and delight 

 Of distant nations ; whose remotest shores 

 Can soon be shaken by thy naval arm ; 

 Not to be shook thyself, but all assaults 

 Baffling, as thy hoar cliffs the loud sea-wave. 



Thompson. 



ENGLAND AND WALES. 



THE catalogue which is subjoined to the following 

 remarks, affords a tolerably correct enumeration of the 

 principal rivers in England and Wales, in which pike, 

 perch, bream, barbel, chub, eels, tench, gudgeon, bleak, 

 etc., etc., may be commonly taken. 



A certain limited number are frequented by the lordly 

 salmon; the rivers which fall into the sea north of the 

 Humber on the eastern coast, and those north of the 

 Mersey on the western, being more or less supplied with 

 this noble fish. There is no river to the south of this 

 line which can fairly be called a salmon-river; although 

 in the Severn, Wye, and Uske, they are often very 



