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CHAPTER XIX. 



OF SEVERAL RIVERS, AND SOME OBSERVATIONS 

 OF FISH. 



pISCATOR. Well, scholar, since the ways 

 and weather do both favor us, and that we 

 yet see not Tottenham Cross, you shall see my will- 

 ingness to satisfy your desire. And, first, for the 

 rivers of this nation : there be, as you may note 

 out of Dr. Heylin's Geography and others, in 

 number three hundred and twenty-five ; but those 

 of chiefest note he reckons and describes as 

 followeth. 



The chief is Thamisis, compounded of two 

 rivers, Thame and Isis ; whereof the former, rising 

 somewhat beyond Thame in Buckinghamshire, 

 and the latter near Cirencester in Gloucestershire, 

 meet together about Dorchester in Oxfordshire ; 

 the issue of which happy conjunction is the Tha- 

 misis, or Thames. Hence it flieth betwixt Berks, 

 Buckinghamshire, Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, and 

 Essex, and so weddeth himself to the Kentish 

 Medvvay in the very jaws of the ocean. This glori- 

 ous river feeleth the violence and benefit of the sea 



