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a black water (as all the rest of the Derbyshire rivers of note 

 originally are, for they all spring from the mosses) ; but is in a few 

 miles' travel so clarified by the addition of several clear and very 

 great springs (bigger than itself) which gush out of the limestone 

 rocks, that before it comes to my house, which is but six or seven 

 miles from its source, you will find it one of the purest crystalline 

 streams you have seen. 



VIAT. Does Trent spring in these parts ? 



Pise. Yes, in these parts ; not in this country, but 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 



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