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Bradford at the foot of the Tor, is famous for the 

 quantity and colour of its trout, though none but 

 personal friends are allowed to fish in it. The Charnet 

 is also a good stream for trout and grayling. The 

 Blythe, too, abounds with these fish, and is a capital 

 river for spinning the minnow. In addition to these 

 rivers, so famous in the remembrance of anglers, 

 Derbyshire boasts of rivulets and brooks abounding in 

 fish, particularly trout the best, perhaps, in England. 



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THE Tamar, which has been mentioned as dividing this 

 county from Cornwall, passes Launceston, Saltash, and 

 Plymouth Dock, and falls into Plymouth Sound. The 

 Plym rises on the east side of Dartmoor, and, inclining 

 to the south-west, forms a large basin beneath the old 

 town of Plymouth. The Yealme, Erme, and Aren, 

 all running south-west, through small rivers, have 

 each a considerable estuary. The pleasant spot and 

 Inn of Ivy Bridge are on the banks of the Erme, which 

 is there a mountain torrent. The Dart, however, is 

 the chief of all the rivers produced by the rocky range 

 of Dartmoor, in the centre of the county. It is a 

 stream of great rapidity, flowing through the rich plains 

 of the southern part of the county, receiving the tide 

 a little below its last bridge at Totness, and falling by 

 Kings Weare and Dartmouth into the sea. The Ex 

 rises in the wild hills of Exmoor, in the western corner 

 of Somersetshire, runs to Tiverton, and thence on to 

 Exeter, receiving in its progress the Loman, the 

 Greedy, and the Culm. The Otter, the Syd, the Axe, 



