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wife an agreeable dish. It now becomes necessary to 

 point out the principal places in which they are to be 

 found, either in the finest condition or in the greatest 

 abundance. The most convenient order of doing this 

 that is, for the purposes of reference will be to 

 range them under the heads of the several counties, 

 so that in whatever locality a person may happen to 

 be, he may, if he wishes for a day's angling, have the 

 means at hand of obtaining a direction to the most pro- 

 mising water. 



I. BEDFORDSHIRE. 



THE Ouse, which takes its rise in Oxfordshire, flows 

 on to Buckingham, and thence to Bedford, whence it 

 passes on to Huntingdon and Ely, dividing the county 

 of Beds into two pretty equal parts, and falls into the 

 sea at Lynn, in Norfolk, produces a variety of pike, 

 perch, cray- fish, eels, &c., and being generally a slug- 

 gish stream, affords fine sport in trolling. 



II. BERKSHIRE. 



THE Isis, which rises on the confines of Gloucester- 

 shire, south-west of Cirencester, passes on to Lechdale, 

 and receiving the Charwcll, near Oxford, continues its 

 course by Abingdon, falls into the Thame at Dorches- 

 ter. The united stream, called the Thames, continues 

 its course by Wallingford, Henley, Reading, Marlow, 

 Eton, Windsor, Hampton, Kingston, Teddington, 

 Richmond, Kew, and Brentford, to London. On its 

 way through Berkshire it receives the waters of the 



