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CHAP. VI. 



OF THE PRINCIPAL RIVERS IN ENGLAND AND PARTICU- 

 LARLY THE THAMES. 



THE rivers in England are said by Dr.Heylin, 

 to be three hundred and twenty-five, though 

 others increase their number to four hundred 

 and fifty. It would be superrlous here to treat 

 particularly of their diversities, their situations, 

 their distance and remoteness to each other, 

 their nearness or vicinity to the sea, the qualities 

 of their water, and the various species .of fish 

 they contain. Those that have a more imme- 

 diate intercourse with the sea, particularly of its 

 influences, and have the same vicissitudes, the 

 same fluxes and refluxes, the same salt water, 

 he same sort of fish which frequent those 

 seas where they d:>embogue themselves! The 

 months of the rivers are loo deep to be fathomed 

 by the cordage of a line; but more inland, and 

 the farther distant from the common receptacle 

 of waters, th;i rivers are most proper for the 

 angler's diversion. 



The principal, rivers 1:1 England are the 

 Thames, Severn, Trent, Tine, Tweed, Medway, 

 Tees, Dove, Isis, Tame, Willey, Avon, Lea, T re- 

 vel, Lon,Nen,Welland,Davent, Caider, Wharf, 

 Kid, Don, Swale, Hull, Ouse, and Are. The ri- 

 vers in Wales are reckoned above two hundred, 

 the principal of which are the Dee, Wye ; Conwy, 



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