226 FISUES AND FISHING. 



thirty-five brace. The then Sir Thomas Dyke be- 

 haved most hospitably and kindly to these gentle- 

 men, and was much interested in the result of the 

 match, which took place a short time previous to the 

 decease of the baronet ; therefore, I presume, must 

 have been about 1846. 



Virginia Water, the most beautiful lake near 

 London, is only a short distance from "Windsor. It 

 is well stocked with fish ; and his Majesty George 

 the Fourth used often to amuse himself there, with 

 angling. This water has one source, from a spring 

 in a large pond in Cranbourn Wood, near Ascot 

 Heath, which supplies four or five ponds in Sunning 

 Hill Park. From Sunning Hill wells a stream runs, 

 which joins that from Sunning Hill Park, about 

 Bucket Hill ; from thence it expands, and runs 

 through Windsor Great Park, into the east end of 

 Virginia Water, In Windsor Great Park, near the 

 Lodge, is a large lake, which, after forming three or 

 four long ponds, also passes into Virginia Water, on 

 its northern side, near where the waters from Sun- 

 ning Hill enter. To the west of the Great Lodge is 

 a loDg pond, communicating with one much larger, 

 from whence there is a narrow cut to the extreme 

 north point of the other end of Virginia Water. 

 The superfluity of the whole falls over a cascade, and 

 passes under the Bagshot Koad, this side the twenty- 



