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Thames: this stream at the upper part is a Trout 

 stream, but not much calculated for fly fishing, being 

 encumbered with wood ; the owners of the water and 

 land were not disposed to grant permission to the 

 Angler, but there has lately been a change in the 

 proprietors, and the present owners are more indulgent. 

 Near the Thames there are white fish, about Hog's 

 Mill and at Kingston you will find good Dace, &c. 



THE MOLE. 



This curious irregular river is so called in conse- 

 quence of its passing through the earth for a conside- 

 rable distance in the neighbourhood of Boxhill, Surry. 



It runs past Riegate, Dorking, Boxhill, and 

 Leatherhead, on through Stoke, Cobham, and Esher, 

 to the Thames, which it enters in a divided stream at 

 Moulsey. 



AN UNEXPECTED BITE. 



: An Angler fishing in the Mole, near the Copper mills, was 

 much annoyed by a countryman, who was in the river, feeling or 

 groping for the large Chub that hide, when the water is low, 

 under the roots of the numerous willows and alders that grow on 

 the banks at the above spot. 



A sudden exclamation and violent splashing called the fisher's 

 attention to where he observed the poacher scrambling up the 

 bank with something in his arms ; he soon stood on the margin 

 of the river, and roared out to a companion, who had a gun, on 

 the opposite side. " Oh ! Jack, Jack, look here," (holding up 

 an otter) " shoot him, shoot him, you devil, shoot him I say." 



