CHAPTER VII. 



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THE county of DURHAM has but two rivers of 

 any considerable extent and volume, namely, the 

 Wear, and the Tees. There is good angling, 

 however, in both, but we must make our way to 

 their higher waters before we reach really good 

 and pleasant fly-fishing streams. 



The Wear rises out of a range of high 

 mountains on the borders of Cumberland, 

 and for several miles from its first springs, 

 pursues its path through a singularly wild and 

 romantic district. To a stranger from the 

 comparatively level and luxuriant counties of 

 the south of England, nothing can be more 

 striking and impressive than a tour on the 

 banks of this river, for the first twenty miles of 



