CHAPTER XIX 



Of several Rivers, and some observations of Fish. 



ISC. Well, scholar, since the ways and weather do 

 both favour us, and that we yet see not Totten- 

 ham Cross, you shall see my willingness to 

 satisfy your desire. And first, for the rivers of 

 this nation, there be (as you may note out of 

 Doctor Heylin's Geography, and others) in 

 number 325, but those of chiefest note he reckons 

 and describes as followeth : 



i . The chief is Thamesis, compounded of two rivers, Thame and 

 Isis, whereof the former, rising somewhat beyond Thame in 

 Buckinghamshire, and the latter in Cirencester in Gloucestershire, 

 meet together about Dorchester in Oxfordshire ; the issue of which 

 happy conjunction is the Thamesis, or Thames ; hence it flieth 

 betwixt Berks, Buckinghamshire, Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, and 

 Essex ; and so weddeth himself to the Kentish Medway, in the very 

 jaws of the ocean. This glorious river feeleth the violence and 

 benefit of the sea more than any river in Europe, ebbing and flowing 



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