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gomeryshirc ; 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 thiriy kind of fishes thai 

 are found in it, or for that it recciveth thirty lessei 

 rivers ; -who, having his fountain in Staffordshire, and 

 gliding through the counties of Nottingham, Lincoln, 

 Leicester, and York, augmenteth the turbulent cur- 

 rent 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 cestuarium of divers rivers here confluent 

 and meeting together, namely, your Uerwent, and es- 

 pecially of Ouse and Trent ; and (as the Danow hav- 

 ing received into its channel the river Dravus, Savus, 

 Tibiscus, and divers others) changeth his name into 

 this of HumberabttS* as the old geographers call it. 



4. Medway, a Kentish river; famous for harbour-? 

 ing the royal navy. 



5. Tweed,, the north-east bound of England ; on 

 whose northern banks, is seated the strong and impreg- 

 nable town of Berwick. 



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

 ible coal-pits*. These, and the rest of principal note, 

 are thus comprehended in one of Mr. Dray ton's Sonnets. 



Our floods 1 queen, Thames, for shipg and swans is crown'd; 



And statelj Severn for her shore is prais'd ; 

 The crystal Trent, for fords and fish renown'd; 



And Awn's fame to Albion's cliffs is raised ; 



* It would have been beside the author's purpose, and, indeed, incon- 

 sistent with the brevity of his work, to have given such a description 

 and history of the rivers of this kingdom as some readers would wish for. 

 Such, however, may find, in Selden's Notes on the Polyolbion, a great va- 

 riety of curious and useful learning on the subject. And it were to be 

 vvish'd that some person skilled like Leland, Camden, Lambarde, or 

 that excellent person above-mentioned, in the antiquities of this country, 

 if any such there are would undertake the delightful task, of surveying 

 them, and giving their history. 



In the mean while we would recommend to our angler the use of a 

 map of the county where he fishes; by means whereof, he may see the 

 rivers contained in it, with their courses ; which is, perhapi as much as 

 a mere angler need know about the matter. 



