10 AET OF ANGLING. 



under the fort of Sheerness, near the mouth of the 

 Thames. This river is remarkable for its extent and 

 safety in harbouring the royal navy of Great Britain. 



THE SEVEEJST is the principal river in Wales, 

 and second only to the Thames in England, belonging 

 alternately to both countries. The chief source of 

 it is in a small lake on the eastern side of Plinlim- 

 mon hill, not far from the heads of the rivers Wye, 

 and Ehydol ; it flows to the south-east, through a 

 wild district, towards Llanidloes ; it then turns to the 

 north-east, between hills, and approaches Newtown, 

 where it assumes its proper name of Severn. Prom 

 thence its course is almost due north, through the 

 delightful vales of Montgomeryshire ; after making a 

 considerable compass, it turns abruptly to the south- 

 east, and almost encircles the town of Shrewsbury, 

 and pursues the same direction till it has passed 

 Colebrook Dale : soon after which it flows southward 

 to Bewdley, Worcester, and Gloucester. Except a 

 large semicircle which the Severn makes at JSTewn- 

 ham, its course is chiefly to the south-west below 

 Gloucester, till it assumes the title of the Bristol 

 Channel, expanding and insensibly losing itself in 

 the Atlantic ocean, between the Land's End of 

 Cornwall and the extreme point of Pembrokeshire. 



THE WYE, though not the largest, may cer- 

 tainly be called the most beautiful of the rivers of 



