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4. Medway, a Kentish river, famous for har- 

 boring the royal navy. 



5. Tweed, the northeast bound of England, 

 on whose northern banks is seated the strong and 

 impregnable town of Berwick. 



6. Tyne, famous for Newcastle, and her inex- 

 haustible coal-pits. These, and the rest of prin- 

 cipal note, are thus comprehended in one of Mr. 

 Dray ton's sonnets : 



" Our floods' queen, Thames, for ships and swans is 

 crowned ; 



And stately Severn for her shore is praised ; 

 The crystal Trent for fords and fish renowned , 



And Avon's fame to Albion's cliffs is raised. 

 Carlegion-Chester vaunts her holy Dee ; 



York many wonders of her Ouse can tell ; 

 The Peak her Dove, whose banks so fertile be, 



And Kent will say her Medway doth excel. 

 Cotswold commends her Isis to the Thame ; 



Our northern borders boast of Tweed's fair flood ; 

 Our western parts extol their Willy's fame, 



And the old Lea brags of the Danish blood " 



These observations are out of learned Dr. 

 Heylin, and my old deceased friend, Michael 

 Drayton ; and because you say, you love such dis- 

 courses as these of rivers and fish and fishing, I 

 love you the better, and love the more to impart 

 them to you ; nevertheless, scholar, if I should 

 begin but to name the several sorts of strange fish 

 that are usually taken in many of those rivers that 

 run into the sea, I might beget wonder in you, or 

 unbelief, or both ; and yet I will venture to tell 



