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The second river of note is the Severn, which 

 has its beginning in Plinilinnnon-hill, in Mont- 

 gomeryshire, and its end seven miles from Bris-? 

 tol ; washing in that place the walls of Shrews- 

 bury, Worcester, Gloucester, and divers other 

 places and palaces of note. It receives greater 

 rivers, and is farther navigable than the Thames, 

 but does not equal it for the quantity and quality 

 of its fish. 



3. The Trent (so called on account of the 

 thirty different kinds of fish which are found in 

 it, or because it receives thirty small rivers) has 

 its fountain in Staffordshire, and gliding through 

 the counties of Nottingham, Lincoln, Leicester, 

 and York, augments the turbulent current of the 

 I lumber, the most violent stream of all the isle. 

 The H umber is not a distinct river, because it 

 has not a spring head of its own, but is rather 

 the mouth or wsluarium of divers rivers meeting 

 together : among which, besides the Trent, are 

 the Darvent and Ouse. 



4. The Methvav, a Kentish river, rises near 

 Tunbridge, passes by Muidstorie, runs by Ro- 

 chester, discharges itself into the mouth of the 

 the Thames, by Sheerness : a river chiefly re- 

 markable for the dock at Chatham, where ships 

 of the first rate are built and repaired for the use 

 of the. English navy. 



5. The Tweed, the north-east boundary of 

 England, on whose banks is seated the strong and 

 almost impregnable town of Berwick : 



6. The Tine, famous for Newcastle, and its in-? 

 exhaustible coal-pits. These, and the rest of 

 principal note, are thus described in one of Mr. 

 Dray ton's sonnets: 



