62 OXFORDSHIRE. RUTLANDSHIRE. 



Welbeck, Clumber, and Thoresby, meets the Trent 

 at the entrance of the Isle of Axholme, are the chief 

 rivers of Notts, and they afford some good fishing. 

 The Trent is especially famous, producing some 

 salmon and grayling, as well as trout, pike, perch, &c. 



XXVIII. OXFORDSHIRE. 



THE Thames, the Isis, the Cherwell, and the Wind- 

 rush, are the chief rivers of this county. The Isis 

 flows in a north-easterly direction to Oxford, receiving 

 in its way the Windrush and the Evenlode, as also a 

 smaller stream, which forms the great lake in Wood- 

 stock Park ; at Oxford, it divides itself into various 

 small channels, which soon after re-unite, and a little 

 below the meads of Christchurch, the Cherwell joins 

 it, and flowing through Magdalen Bridge, flows on to 

 Abingdon, and thence to Dorchester, where being 

 joined by the Thame, which descends from the central 

 parts of Bucks, helps to form the unrivalled Thames. 

 In all these rivers there are good trout, pike, perch, 

 &c., and the rud is plentiful where the Cherwell and 

 the Isis join. 



XXIX. RUTLANDSHIRE. 



THIS county has but one river running through it 

 i. e., the Wash; but the Welland washes it on the 

 south, and the Chater on the south-east ; and there 

 are many inconsiderable streams in the interior. Pike, 

 perch, and other fish are found in most of them. 



