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the Ure near Fountain's Abbey, the Wye near the 

 great Abbey of Tintern ; and, if I am not mistaken, 

 in the lower part of this valley, there are the remains 

 of an extensive establishment of friars. 



HAL, But there are rivers near the ruins of some 

 of the most magnificent establishments of this kind in 

 Europe, and those nearest the Continent, where the 

 grayling is not found ; for instance, in the Stour, at 

 Canterbury. And if the grayling be an imported fish, 

 it is wonderful, that it should not be found in the 

 rivers in Kent, and along the south-west coast of 

 England, as in Dorsetshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall, 

 where the monastic establishments were numerous ; 

 and why it should be found in some rivers in the 

 mountainous parts of Wales, as in that near Llan-wrtyd 

 and the Dee not near Yal Crucis Abbey, but fifteen 

 miles higher up, between Corwen and Bala. 



POIET. It may have been a fish imported from the 

 Continent, and carried to a number of rivers, only a 

 few of which may have suited its habits, and has 

 remained there and multiplied. 



HAL. There may be truth in what you are now 

 imagining, for the grayling requires a number of 

 circumstances in a river to enable it to increase. 



POIET. What circumstances are these ? 



HAL. A temperature in the water which must be 

 moderate neither too high nor too low. Grayling 



