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somewhere towards the upper end of Staffordshire, I 

 think not far from a place called Trentham ; and 

 thence runs down, not far from Stafford, to Wolsly- 

 bridge; and washing the skirts and purlieus of the 

 forest of Needwood, runs down to Burton in the same 

 county thence it comes into this, where we now are, 

 and, running by Swarkston and Dunnington, re- 

 ceives Derzvent at Wildon ; and, so, to Nottingham ; 

 thence, to Newark; and, by Gainsborough, to Kings- 

 ton upon Hull, where it takes the name of Number, 

 and thence falls into the sea : but THAT the map will 

 best inform you, 



Viat. Know you whence this river Trent derives its 

 name ? 



Pise. No, indeed : and yet I have heard it often 

 discours'd upon, when some have given its denomina- 

 tion from the fore-named Trent ham, though that seems 

 rather a derivative from it : others have said it is so 

 called from thirty rivers that fall into it, and there lose 

 their names ; which cannot be, neither, because it car* 

 ries that name from its very fountain, before any other 

 rivers fall into it : others derive it from thiriy 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 witfi excellent Salmon, and all sorts of deli- 

 cate fish. 



Viat. Pardon me, Sir, for tempting you into this 

 digression. And then proceed to your other rivers; 

 for I am mightily delighted with this discourse. 



Pise. 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 of 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^vill 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 be- 

 twixt us and it, namely Lathkin and Bradford: of 



