CHAPTER XIX. 



OF SEVERAL RIVERS, AND SOME OBSERVATIONS OF FISH, 



[lift!? Sit!?.] 



PlSC. Well, scholar, since the ways and weather do both 

 favour us, and that we yet see not Tottenham Cross, you 

 shall see my willingness to satisfy your desire. And first, 

 for the rivers of this nation, there be, as you may note out 

 of Doctor Heylin's Geography, and others, in number 325, 

 but those of chiefest note he reckons and describes as 

 follo\veth : 



i. The chief is Thamesis, compounded of two rivers, 

 Thame and Isis, whereof the former, rising somewhat 

 beyond Thame in Buckinghamshire, and the latter near 

 Cirencester in Gloucestershire, meet together about Dor- 

 chester in Oxfordshire ; the issue of which happy conjunc- 

 tion is the Thamesis, or Thames ; hence it flieth between 



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