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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, receives Derwent at Wildon ; and, so, to Nottingham ; 

 thence, to Newark ; and, by Gainsborough, to Kingston-upon-Hull, 

 where it takes the name of Humber, 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 discoursed upon, 

 when some have given its denomination from the fore-named 

 Trentham, though that seems rather a derivative from it ; others 

 have said 'tis so called from thirty rivers that fall into it, and there 

 lose their names, which cannot be neither, because it carries that 

 name from its very fountain, before any other rivers fall into it ; 

 others derive it from thirty 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 with excellent salmon, and all sorts of delicate 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 will 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 betwixt us and it, namely, Lathkin and Bradford ; of 

 which Lathkin is, by many degrees, the purest and most transparent 

 stream that I ever yet saw, either at home or abroad, and breeds 'tis 

 said, the reddest and the best trouts in England ; but neither of 

 these are to be reputed rivers, being no better than great springs. 

 The river Wye, then, has its source near unto Buxton, a town some 

 ten miles hence, famous for a warm bath, and which you are to ride 

 through in your way to Manchester ; a black water, too, at the 



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