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county four or five miles south-east of Bath, and is 

 the boundary between Somerset and Gloucestershire, 

 passing by Bristol, runs into the mouth of the Severn, 

 and terminates in the Bristol Channel. The Brent 

 runs from east to west, passing by the noble remains 

 of G-lastonbury Abbey, below which it becomes a large 

 lake, and then runs into the Parrett, which rises in 

 the most southerly part of the county, bordering on 

 Dorsetshire, and forms a junction with the Thome near 

 the centre of the county, and after receiving the Yeo 

 and the Ivel, passes by Bridgwater, and forms a bay in 

 the Bristol Channel. The Brue, which rises in Sel- 

 wood Forest, on the skirt of Wiltshire, meets the 

 Bristol Channel near the mouth of the Parrett, in the 

 Bay of Bridgwater. The Frame rises in the grounds 

 of the Marquis of Bath, at Longleat. These are all 

 good rivers for angling in, the trout fishing just above 

 Bath being especially good. 



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THE Trent, which takes its rise from three springs 

 between Congleton and Deep, after being swelled by 

 the Sow and Eccleshall Water, runs in a south-easterly 

 direction into Derbyshire, which it enters just after its 

 junction with the Dove, which also rising in the moor- 

 lands, divides Staffordshire and Derbyshire, to the point 

 where it meets the Trent, having received from the 

 north the Many/old, the Churrtett, and several other 

 streams. The Sow rises a few miles westward of New- 

 castle-under-Line, and passing by Stafford, runs parallel 

 with the Trent, and at only a short distance from it, until 

 they join below that town, previous to reaching which it 



