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XIII. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 



THE Severn rises in Montgomeryshire, and, running 

 on through parts of Shropshire, Staffordshire, and 

 Worcestershire, enters this county about two miles 

 above Tewkesbury. Soon after reaching the city 

 of Gloucester, it divides itself into two streams, which 

 soon re-uniting, constitutes a considerable river, and 

 after joining the Wye and the Lower Avon, assumes 

 the name of the British Channel. Its waters are so 

 rapid and so muddy, however, that it has no great 

 variety of fish, although it is well stocked with salmon 

 and lampreys. The Isis, the Wye, the Upper Avon, the 

 Chelt, the Stroud, the Cam, and the Little Avon, all 

 produce a variety of fish, some of which are very fine. 



XIV. HAMPSHIRE. 



THE Avon, which enters this county at Charford, runs 

 on to Salisbury, on one side of which city it is joined 

 by the Willey, the Deverell, and the Nadder, and on 

 the other by the Bourne, and thence pursues a 

 southerly direction, until it is joined by the Stour at 

 Christ Church, where it falls into the sea. The Alne 

 and the lichen, which rise near Alresford, and unite 

 near that town, flow southward, till they fall, as one 

 river, into Southampton Bay; besides which there are 

 the Anton and the Test, which contribute, with the 

 streams just mentioned, to form the Southampton- 

 River and the Wey, which, rising in this county, 

 runs into Surrey. In many parts of all these rivers 

 there is good angling for salmon, salmon-trout, trout, 

 mullet, and a variety of other fish. 



