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

 named Trentham, though that seems rather a derivative 

 from it ; others have said it 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 derivation. But be it how it will, it is doubtless 

 one of the finest rivers in the world, and the most abound- 

 ing with excellent salmon, and all sorts of delicate fish. 



VlAT. 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. 



PlSC. It was no interruption, but a very seasonable ques- 

 tion ; 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, 

 being 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 degrees, the purest and most transparent stream 

 that I ever yet saw, either at home or abroad, and breeds, 

 it is said, the reddest and the best trouts in England ; but 

 neither of these are to be reputed rivers, being no better than 

 great springs. The river Wye, then, has its source near unto 

 Buxton, a town some ten miles hence, famous for a warm 

 bath, and which you are to ride through in your way to Man- 

 chester ; a black water too, at the fountain, but, by the same 

 reason with Dove, becomes very soon a most delicate clear 



