1 64 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PARTI. 



hence it flieth between Berks, Buckinghamshire, Middlesex, 

 Surrey, Kent, and Essex: and so weddeth himself to the 

 Kentish Medway, in the very jaws of the ocean. This glorious 

 river feeleth the violence and benefit of the sea more than any 

 river in Europe, ebbing and flowing twice a day, more than 

 sixty miles ; about whose banks are so many fair towns and 

 princely palaces that a German poet thus truly spake : . 



" Tot campos," etc. 



" We saw so many woods and princely bowers, 

 Sweet fields, brave palaces, and stately towers, 

 So many gardens dress'd with curious care, 

 That Thames with royal Tiber may compare." 



2. The second river of note is Sabrina, or Severn ; it hath its 

 beginning in Plynlimmon Hill in Montgomeryshire, and his end 

 seven miles from Bristol, washing, in the mean space, the walls 

 of Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Gloucester, and divers other 

 places and palaces of note. 



3. Trent, so called from thirty kind ot fishes that are found 

 in it, or for that it receiveth thirty lesser rivers ; who, having its 

 fountain in Staffordshire, and gliding through the counties of 

 Nottingham, Lincoln, Leicester, and York, augmenteth the 

 turbulent current of Humber, the most violent stream of all 

 the isle. This Humber is not, to say truth, a distinct river, 

 having a spring-head of his own, but it is rather the mouth 

 or aestuarium of divers rivers here confluent, and meeting to- 

 gether, namely, your Denvent, and especially of Ouse and 

 Trent; and (as the Danow, having received into its channel 

 the river Dravus, Savus, Tibiscus, and divers others) changeth 

 his name into this of Humberabus, as the old geographers 

 call it. 



4. Medway, a Kentish river, famous for harbouring the royal 

 navy. 



5. Tweed, the north-east bound of England ; on whose 

 northern banks is seated the strong and impregnable town of 

 Berwick. 



