140 BEST'S ART OF ANGLING. 



Tivy, Chedlayday, Cluid, Usk, Tovy, Taff, and 

 Dovy. Several rivers in England run under- 

 ground, and then rise again, as a branch of the 

 Medway in Kent ; the Mole in Surrey ; Hans in 

 Staffordshire ; the little rivers Allen in Denbigh- 

 " shire, and Deveril in Wiithire; the river Recall 

 hides itself underground, near Elmsley in the 

 North Riding of Yorkshire ; at Ashwell in Bed- 

 fordshire, rise so many sources of springs that 

 they soon drive a mill ; at Chedder, near Ax 

 bridge in Somersetshire, is a spring that drives 

 twelve miles in a quarter of a mile. In the midst 

 of the jiver Nen, south of Peterborough in 

 ^Northamptonshire, is a deep gulf, called Medes- 

 well, so cold, that in summer no swimmer is able 

 to endure it, yet is not frozen in the winter. But 

 of these enough. 



As the maps will give a better prospect of these 

 than any enumeration of them can do, let every 

 angler have a large one of England, or at least of 

 the particular county where he usually angles, 

 und therein he may with delight observe the 

 spring head, scite, distance, various passages, 

 windings, turnings, and confluxes of each parti- 

 cular river, with what towns, castles, churches, 

 gentlemen's seats, and places of note, are on or 

 Dear the banks; making, as he angles, remarks 

 proper to the nature of each. The six principal 

 rivers are as follow: 



1. The Thames, compounded of two rivers, 

 Tame and Isis. The Tame rises in Bucks, be- 

 yond Tame in Oxfordshire, and the latter in 

 Cotswold-hilJsj near Cirencester in Gloucester- 

 shire. They meet about Dorchester, in Oxford- 

 shire, and thence run. united betwixt that, county 

 and Bucks, and between Buckinghamshire, Mid- 



