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name," for here are two* Wants, the more you know of 

 them the better you'll like them. At this place you will 

 find two miles of as good and well-preserved water as any 

 I am acquainted with, not excepting the private waters 

 belonging to many gentlemen, who make a great favour of 

 their permission for a few hours' angling. It contains 

 two water-falls, Carthagena and King's Weir. I only 

 allude to the quantity and quality of the Jack, Chub, 

 Roach, Perch, Dace, &c. ; the Trout here are good and 

 large, but scarce; (there are no Trout streams of any 

 note near London, but what are private, and generally 

 speaking enclosed;) about 200 yards below King's Weir 

 commences Mr. Weston's Subscription water, where there 

 are some Trout, with plenty of large Jack, Chub, Dace, 

 Eels, Perch, Roach, and Barbel; the latter fish I never 

 saw caught either here or at Broxbourn, until last season, 

 when some very large ones were taken : I know them to 

 be abundant about King's Weir, and some other parts ; 

 two miles below King's Weir, the water belonging to 

 Government begins, and continues for some distance. The 

 next place that I am acquainted with on the river is the 

 King's Head Water, beginning at Enfield Lock, and ending 

 at Hicks's Ford, about 1| miles long; it is private pro- 

 perty, belonging to Messrs. Fluke and White; there is no 

 public-house near it : after which comes 



FLANDER'S WEIR, LATE SHUREY 

 CARPENTER'S, 



now rented by Mr. Towers, the miller of Chingford; it is 

 open for Subscribers, and contains a fair quantity of 

 Jack, Perch, Chub, Barbel, Roach, Dace, Bleak, &c. with 

 plenty of fine Eels ; the distance from town enables you 

 to go and return the same day, which you may do from 

 September until February; the summer months you ought 

 to fish from daylight till nine in the forenoon, and from 

 five till dark in the evening. Next to Flanders Weir is 



* Tom Want and his Brother, as civil and attentive as any men 

 can be, who will take care you shall have no other want, if they can 

 help it. 



