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Daventry, and flows, with a winding course, from 

 Wandesford, round the north-west and northern borders 

 of the county, produce good pike, perch, eels, and 

 plenty of other fish, in addition to the rud, or furicale, 

 which is found in the Nen. There are also many 

 meres, or lakes, as Whittlesea, Ramsey, Brich, Ugy, 

 Benwick, &c., which contain very large pike, bream, 

 perch, tench, and eels. 



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THE Medivay. which rises in Sussex, and enters this 

 county near Penshurst, receives many tributary streams 

 from the Weald, crosses the county by Maidstone and 

 Rochester, below which it forms the Chatham Dock, 

 and afterwards falls into the mouth of the Thames, 

 between the Isles of Sheppey and Grain. Near 

 Westerham, nine springs take their rise, and uniting at a 

 short distance from the river Dart, which runs through 

 Dartford, discharge themselves into the Thames, 

 not far from Long Reach. The Stour, which rises in 

 the Weald, flows by Canterbury, and empties itself 

 into the sea below Sandwich the Bother, which 

 flows from Sussex, forms, for some short distance, the 

 limit between the two counties, and then falls into the 

 sea at Rye the Tunn, which runs into the Medway, 

 near Tunbridge, and one or two other streams, all 

 contain some excellent fish, the Stour, especially, con- 

 taining some good trout. 



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THE Mersey, which runs between this county and 

 Cheshire, receives the Tame and several smaller 



