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The Medway abounds with fish, particularly 

 carp, perch, tench, pike, dace, chub, roach, and 

 gudgeons. Salmon are scarce, and seldom 

 weigh more than twelve or fourteen pounds. 

 They were formerly very numerous in this river, 

 as appears from the records of many of the 

 manors of the Priory of Rochester, which were 

 compelled to furnish a certain quantity of 

 salmon for the table of the monks. Fine trout 

 are also taken in many of its tributaries ; and 

 some as large as twelve pounds, have been 

 caught with minnow tackle. 



There are six smaller streams, abounding 

 more or less with trout, and other common fish, 

 in the county ; these are the Bavensborne, the 

 Cray, the Darent, the greater and lesser Stour, 

 and the Bother. 



The Bavensborne rises on Keston- Common, 

 and flows through Bromley, and the eastern 

 bounds of Beckenham, towards Lewisham. It 

 passes Lee and Deptford, and falls into the 

 Thames. There are a few trout in it, towards 

 its source ; and in its lower parts it abounds 

 with jack, perch, and other bottom fish. 



The Cray, anciently called by the Saxons, 

 Crecca, signifying a brook or rivulet, rises at 

 Newell, runs by St. Mary and Paul's Cray, 

 thence to Foot's Cray, Bexley, and so on to 



