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one mile stone, and runs into the Trumps' Mill River, 

 to which mill it assists in giving a head of water. 

 Many years ago, the cascade gave way, and consider- 

 able damage was done in the neighbourhood. An 

 immense quantity of fish were taken in all the brooks 

 with which Trumps' Mill River communicates ; one 

 runs by the upper part of Chertsey town, into the 

 Thames ; another branch runs to Woburn Park, and 

 there dividing this park from Ham Haw, one part 

 falls into the Thames, in Chertsey mead ; the other 

 continuation, called the Bourne Brook (before men- 

 tioned), passes into the Wey navigation, by Wey- 

 bridge Bridge, and so into the Thames, at Thames 

 Lock. 



How permission to angle in Virginia Water can be 

 obtained, or whether obtainable at all, I am unable 

 to say. 



There are many ponds in the neighbourhood of 

 London, but having never taken the trouble to go to 

 them, I can give no information. Salter, however, 

 in one of his works on angling, to the best of my 

 recollection, gives fuU information on that head. 



As connected with pond fishing, I will mention 

 a ludicrous incident : — I passed over Clapham 

 Common, on my way to dine with my friend, Mr. L., 

 who then lived near that locality ; and having ob- 

 served, as I drove past, on the surface of the water of 



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