336 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



Berks, Buckinghamshire, Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, and 

 Essex ; and so weddeth himself to the Kentish Medway, in 

 the very jaws of the ocean. This glorious river feeleth the 

 violence and benefit of the sea more than any river in 

 Europe, ebbing and flowing twice a day, more than sixty 

 miles ; about whose banks are so many fair towns and 

 princely palaces, that a German poet thus truly spake : 



Tot campos, etc. 



We saw so many woods and princely bowers, 

 Sweet fields, brave palaces, and stately towers, 

 So many gardens dress'd with curious care, 

 That Thames with royal Tiber may compare. 



2. The second river of note is Sabrina, or Severn : it hath 

 its beginning in Plynlimmon Hill, in Montgomeryshire, and 

 his 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 its 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 aestuarium 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 river Dravus, Savus, Tibiscus, and divers 

 others) changeth his name into this of Humberabus, as th 

 old geographers call it. 



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