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more than any river in Europe, ebbing and flow- 

 ing twice a day more than sixty miles ; about 

 whose banks are so many fair towns and princely 

 palaces that a German poet thus truly spake : 



" Tot campos, etc. 



" We saw so many woods and princely bowers, 

 Sweet fields, brave palaces, and stately towers ; 

 So many gardens, dressed with curious care. 

 That Thames with royal Tiber may compare " 



2. The second river of note is Sabrina, or 

 Severn. It hath its beginning in Plinilimmon 

 Hill in Montgomeryshire, and his end seven miles 

 from Bristol ; washing in the mean space the walls 

 of Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Gloucester, and 

 divers other places and palaces of note. 



3. Trent, so called from thirty kind of fishes 

 that are found in it, or for that it receiveth thirty 

 lesser rivers ; who, having his fountain in Stafford- 

 shire, and gliding through the counties of Notting- 

 ham, Lincoln, Leicester, and York, augmenteth 

 the turbulent current of Humber, the most violent 

 stream of all the isle. This Humber is not, to 

 say truth, a distinct river, having a spring -head of 

 his own, but it is rather the mouth, or astuarium, 

 of divers rivers here confluent and meeting to- 

 gether ; namely, your Derwent, and especially of 

 Ouse and Trent ; and (as the Danow, having re- 

 ceived into its channel the rivers Dravus, Savus, 

 Tibiscus, and divers others) changeth his name 

 into this of Humberabus, as the old geographers 

 call it. 



