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CHAPTER II. 



An Account of the principal RIVERS in Derbi/shirr. 

 Viator lodges at Piscator's House. 



PISCATOR-JUNIOR. 



SO, Sir, now we have got to the top of the hill out 

 of town, look about you and tell me how you like the 

 country. 



Fiat. Bless meJ what mountains are here! are we 

 not in Wales ? 



Pise. No, but in almost as mountainous a coun- 

 try: and yet these hills, though high, bleak, and 

 craggy, breed and feed good beef and mutton above 

 ground ; and afford good store of lead within . 



Viat. They had need of all those commodities 

 to make amends for the ill landskip: but I hope our 

 way does not lie over any of these ; for I dread a pre- 

 cipice. 



Pise. Believe me, but it docs ; and down one, es- 

 pecially, that will appear a litlle terrible to a stranger, 

 though the way is passable enough, and so passable, 

 that we who are natives of these mountains, and ac- 

 quainted with them, disdain to alight. 



Viat. I hope, though, that a foreigner is privileged 

 to use his own discretion ; and that I may have the 

 liberty to entrust my neck to the fidelity of my own 

 feet, rather than to those of my horse, ibr I have no 

 more at home. 



Pise. 'Twere hard else. But, in the mean time, I 

 think 'twere best, while this way is pretty even, to 

 mend our pace, that we may be past that hill I 

 speak of; to the end your apprehension may not be 

 doubled, for want of light to discern the easiness of 

 the descent. 



Viat. I am willing to put forward as fast as my 



