234 FISHES AND FISHING. 



obliged to the " Pennj^ Cyclopaedia," the " Penny 

 Magazine," the researches of a friend visiting the 

 British Museum, and my own references to Oppian's 

 " Halieuticks.'* 



At Uxhridge, by putting up at the Crown and 

 Cushion, or at the White Horse, and taking your 

 refreshment there, you could, a few years ago, angle 

 in the Colne ; but you had to pay for the trout you 

 took away, fish ten to twelve inches, two shillings a 

 pound; twelve to eighteen inches, half-a-crown a 

 pound. 



About two miles from Uxbridge is a small village, 

 called Yewsly, and I am told that the landlord of 

 the " Tkout " there can give his customers permission 

 to angle. I think this must be the village, a little 

 to the right of the West Drayton Station, where there 

 is a very comfortable house bearing that sign, with 

 good accommodation and moderate charges; the 

 angler pays one shilling for his day's angling. I am 

 told there is good angling at the place you are taken 

 to, some little distance across the railroad, if the 

 weather be appropriate ; but I was not fortunate in 

 having a favourable day, and I have not been there 

 since. 



The Rivee Brent runs at the back of the Coach 

 and Horses, at Han well, and there are, it is said, very 

 deep holes, containing large bream. 



