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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 of fishes that are 

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

 having his fountain in Staffordshire, and gliding through the 

 counties of Nottingham, Lincoln, Leicester, and York, aug- 

 menteth 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 sestuarium, of divers rivers here confluent 

 and meeting together : namely, your Derwent, and especially 

 of Ouse and Trent ; and (as the Danow, having received into 

 its channel the rivers 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 harboring the 

 royal navy. 



5. TWEED, the northeast bound of England, on whose 

 northern banks is seated the strong and impregnable town of 

 Berwick. 



6. TYNE, famous for Newcastle, and her inexhaustible coal- 

 pits. These, and the rest of principal note, are thus compre- 

 hended in one of Mr. Drayton's Sonnets. 



" Our floods' queen, Thames, for ships and swans is crowned ; 



And stately Severn for her shore is praised ; 

 The crystal Trent for fords and fish renowned ; 



And Avon's fame to Albion's cliffs is raised. 

 Carlegion-Chester vaunts her holy Dee ; 



York many wonders of her Ouse can tell ; 

 The Peak her Dove, whose banks so fertile be, 



And Kent will say her Medway doth excel. 

 Cotswold commends her Isis to the Thame ; 



Our northern borders boast of Tweed's fair flood; 

 Our western parts extol their Willy's fame, 



And the old Lea brags of the Danish blood." 



