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and then proceed to your other rivers, for I am mightily 

 delighted with this discourse. 



PiSC. It was no interruption, but a very seasonable question: 

 for Trent is not only one of our Derbyshire rivers, but the chief 

 of them, and into which all the rest pay the tribute of their 

 names, which I had, perhaps, forgot to insist upon, being got to 

 the other end of the county, had you not awoke my memory. 

 But I will now proceed. And the next river of note, for I will 

 take them as they lie eastward from us, is the river Wye ; I say 

 of note, for we have two lesser betwixt us and it, namely, 

 Lathkin and Bradford ; of which Lathkin is, by many degrees, 

 the purest and most transparent stream that I ever yet saw, 

 either at home or abroad, and breeds, it is said, the reddest and 

 the best trouts in England: but neither of these are to be 

 reputed rivers, being no better than great springs. The river 

 Wye, then, has its source near unto Buxton, a town some ten 

 miles hence, famous for a warm bath, and which you are to ride 

 through in your way to Manchester; a black water, too, at the 

 fountain, but, by the same reason with Dove, becomes very 

 soon a most delicate, clear river, and breeds admirable trout 

 and grayling, reputed by those who, by living upon its banks, 

 are partial to it, the best of any; and this, running down 

 by Ashford, Bake well, and Hadden, at a town a little lower, 

 called Rowsly, falls into Dervvent, and there loses its name. 

 The next in order is Derwent, a black water, too, and that not 

 only from its fountain, but quite through its progress, not having 

 these crystal springs to wash and cleanse it which the two fore- 

 mentioned have ; but abounds with trout and grayling, such as 

 they are, towards its source, and with salmon below: and this 

 river, from the upper and utmost part of the county, where it 

 springs, taking its course by Chatsworth, Darley, Matlock, 

 Derby, Burrow-Ash, and Awberson, falls into Trent at a place 

 called Wildon, and there loses its name. The east^side of this 

 county of Derby is bounded by little inconsiderable rivers, as 

 Awber, Eroways, and the like, scarce worth naming, but trouty, 

 too ; and further we are not to enquire. But, sir, I have carried 

 you, as a man may say, by water, till we are now come to the 



