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thickly covered with alders and other trees, as 

 to render it very difficult to be fly-fished, after 

 which it joins the Manifold, a stream that has 

 its second rise in the neighbourhood of Ham- 

 hall.* The Dove now becomes a mueh wider 

 and deeper stream, and a little below its junc- 

 tion with the Manifold, is a fine sheet of water 

 called Flaxly Pool, noted for its large trout and 

 grayling. Between this pool and Coldwall- 

 bridge, is a gentle stream of considerable 

 length, and one of the best in the unpreserved 

 portions of the river. From the bridge thus 

 named, there is a succession of excellent 

 streams, until you come to a fine sheet of water 

 called Peg's Hole. From this sheet of water, 

 until you come to a part of the river called 

 Thorpe Ruff or Thorpe Budds, there are several 

 excellent streams, but which are not easily fly- 

 fished, on account of the many trees growing on 

 their banks. The river now presents run- 

 ning south-east a good succession of pool 

 and stream, until you arrive at Oakover-bridge. 

 From half a mile or thereabouts below this 

 bridge, every one has liberty to fish, and the 

 streams are excellent ones as far as Hanging- 

 bridge. On the north side of this bridge is a 

 fine sheet of water called Garden- wheel, a no- 

 ted place for dibbing with the green-drake and 



* Vide cut at the end of the 10th. chapter. 



