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good collection of similar fish. The directors give 

 annual admission-tickets. 



The Camberwell Canal has some jack, as well as 

 roach, perch, &c. 



The Paddington Canal contains jack, roach, perch, 

 chub, &c. 



The East and West India Docks sometimes yield 

 fine perch, roach, bream, carp, and tench. 



The Serpentine contains carp, tench, roach, perch, 

 dace, &c., but it is not a favourable place to angle in. 

 Permission must be had from the Ranger. 



XXIII. MONMOUTHSHIRE. 



THE Uske, which rises in the mountains that divide 

 Breconshire from Carmarthenshire, enters the county 

 a little above Abergavenny, and winding to the town 

 and castle of Uske, where it is joined by a small stream 

 from the north-west, meets the tide a little before its ap- 

 proach to Caerleon, and thence flows onward to Newport, 

 and falls into the Bristol Channel; the JElwy&ud Sorwy, 

 which rise in the mountainous track towards the north- 

 west, after uniting, pass through Tredegar Park and the 

 marshes below it, and join the Uske at its mouth; the 

 Wye, which parts the county from Gloucestershire, and 

 runs by the town of Monmouth, and unites with the 

 Severn below Chepstow; and the Monow, which divides 

 the county from Herefordshire, and, running on the 

 other side of Monmouth, joins the Wye are the chief 

 rivers of this county. They afford excellent sport, 

 abounding with salmon, trout, salmon-trout, and 

 grayling. 



