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to Kingston-upon-Hullj where it takes the name of Humber,* and 

 thence falls into the sea : but that the Map will best inform you. 



VIATOR. Know you whence this river Trent derives its name? 



PlSCATOR. No, indeed; and yet I have heard it often discoursed 

 upon : when some have given its denomination from the forenamed 

 Trentham, though that seems rather a derivative from it ; others 

 have said it is so called from thirty rivers that fall into it,t and 

 there lose their names ; which cannot be, neither, because it 

 carries that name from its very fountain, before any other rivers fall 

 into it : others derive it from thirty several sorts of fish that breed 

 there ; and that is the most likely derivation : but be it how it 

 will, it is doubtless one of the finest rivers in the world, and the 

 most abounding with excellent Salmon, and all sorts of delicate 

 fish. 



VIATOR. Pardon me, Sir, for tempting you into this digression : 

 and then proceed to your other rivers, for I am mightily delighted 

 with this Discourse. 



PlSCATOR. It was no interruption, but a very seasonable 

 question ; for Trent is not only one of our Derbyshire rivers, but 

 the chief of them, and into which all the rest pay the tribute ot 

 their names, which I had, perhaps, forgot to insist upon, being 

 got to the other end of the county, had you not awoke my memory. 

 But I will now proceed. And the next river of note, for I will 

 take them as they lie eastward from us, is the river Wye : I say 

 of note, for we have two lesser betwixt us and it, namely, Lathkin 

 and Bradford ; of which Lathkin is, by many degrees, the purest 

 and most transparent stream that I ever yet saw, either at home 

 or abroad, and breeds, it is said, the reddest and the best Trouts 

 in England : but neither of these are to be reputed rivers, being 

 no better than great springs. The river Wye, then, has its source 

 near unto Buxton, a town some ten miles from hence, famous for 

 a warm bath, and which you are to ride through in your way to 

 Manchester : a black water, too, at the fountain, but, by the same 

 reason with Dove, becomes very soon a most delicate clear river, 

 and breeds admirable Trout and Grayling, reputed by those who, 

 by living upon its banks, are partial to it, the best of any : and this, 

 running down by Ashford, Bakewell, and Haddon, at a town a little 

 lower, called Rowsley, falls into Derwent, and there loses its name.J 



* Humber loud, that keeps the Scythian's name. 

 f Trent, who, like some Earth-born giant spreads 

 His thirty arms along the indented meads. Ibid. 



Milton. 



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\ By this it appears that there are two rivers in England that bear the name of Wye : 

 the former Wye, occasionally mentioned in this work, has, 



as well as the Severn, its 



