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Pise. Yes, in these parts : not in this county, but some- 

 where towards the upper end of Staffordshire, I think not fai 

 from a place called Trentham ; and thence runs down not fa: 

 from Stafford to Wolsley Bridge, and, washing the skirts and 

 purlieus of the Forest of Needwood, runs down to Burton in 

 the same county : thence it comes into this where we now are, 

 and, running by Swarkeston and Dunnington, receives Der- 

 went at Wildon ; and so to Nottingham, thence to Newark, 

 and by Gainsborough to Kingston upon Hull, where it takes 

 the name of Humber, and thence falls into the sea : but that 

 the map will best inform you. 



VIAT. Know you whence this river Trent derives its name ? 



Pise. No, indeed, and yet I have heard it often discoursed 

 upon, when some have given its denomination from the fore- 

 named Trentham, though that seems rather a derivative from 

 it; others have said, 't is so called from thirty rivers that fall 

 into it, and there lose their names ; which cannot be, neither, 

 because it carries that name from its very fountain, before any 

 other rivers fall into it : others derive it from thirty several 

 sorts of fish that breed there ; and that is the most likely deri- 

 vation : but be it how it will, it is doubtless one of the finest 

 rivers in the world, and the most abounding with excellent 

 Salmon, and all sorts of delicate fish. 



VIAT. Pardon me, Sir, for tempting you into this digres- 

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

 delighted with this discourse. 



Pise. 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, be- 

 ing 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 



