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Churnet, the Blythe, the Manifold, and the 

 celebrated Lathkil, whose excellence, either 

 as trout or grayling streams, has been more 

 particularly noticed in a preceding part of the 

 chapter. Situated as Ashborne is, almost on 

 the banks of the Dove, and surrounded by 

 several other streams, some of them of nearly 

 equal celebrity, it is not surprising if its 

 inhabitants are extremely partial to fly-fishing 

 and trolling. They are ; and no town in 

 England can produce, taking its size into the 

 calculation, so many perfect proficients in those 

 two modes of angling. The stranger, there- 

 fore, who comes, for the first time, to angle in 

 the streams of Derbyshire and Staffordshire, 

 can obtain every information at Ashborne, 

 relative to the object of his visit. He need 

 but put up at the Green-man or at the Wheat- 

 sheaf the two best hotels in the town and 

 the proprietors will inform him where he may 

 obtain, most correctly and faithfully, the 

 requisite information. We do not mention 

 the superiority of those hotels for the purpose 

 of bribing their proprietors : they are above 

 it. However, we think we know to whom 

 they will direct their angling guests, who 

 either seek for local information as to fly-fish- 

 ing, or for rods, tackle, or flies. It may be 

 to ourselves, or it may not but we think the 



