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Give way, you, now retiring, following now 

 Across the stream, exhaust his idle rage, 

 Till floating broad upon his breathless side, 

 And to his fate abandon'd, to the shore 

 You gaily drag your unresisting prize. 



CHAP. VI. 



*0ftlie principal Rivers in England, and 

 particularly of the Thames. 



THE rivers in England are said by Dr. Hey tin, 

 to be three hundred and twenty- five, though 

 others increase their number to four hundred and 

 fifty. It would be superfluous here to treat par- 

 ticularly of their diversities, their situations, their 

 distance and remoteness from each other, their 

 nearness or vicinity to the sea, the qualities of 

 their water, and the various species of fish they 

 contain. Those that have a more immediate in- 

 tercourse with the sea, partake of its influences, 

 and have the same vicissitudes, the same fluxes 

 and refluxess, the same salt water, and the same 

 sort of fish which frequent those seas where they 

 disembogue themselves. The mouth of rivers 

 are too deep to be fathomed by the cordage of a 

 line 5 but more inland and farther distant from 

 the common receptacle of waters, the rivers are 

 most proper for the angler's diversion. 



The principal rivers in England, are, the 

 Thames, Severn, Trent, Tyne, Tweed, Medway, 

 Tees, Dove, Isis, Tame, Willey, Avon, Lea, 



* The angler must observe, that the names of Wye, Aron, 

 Ouse, Stone, and some others, are common to many rivers in 

 England, as that of Dulas is to numbers in Wales. 



