maggot at one end, and a fool at the other/' Sec.; with 

 occasionally a handful of dirt or stone coming in the 

 water or on your head, renders angling anything hut 

 an amusement. 



Though Richmond is not famed as an angling 

 station, yet it is "beautiful exceedingly," with its 

 bridge, its mount, and its park; and several times, 

 both above the bridge and below, have we enjoyed 

 excellent sport here; five in a punt, "the more the 

 merrier," pulling up dace, roach, and perch, till the 

 joint stock of the company amounted, in point of num- 

 ber and weight, if not of size and value, to something 

 considerable, and enough to make a drift of bottom- 

 fishers vain. In going towards Richmond Hill may be 

 seen a votive tablet, in front of some alms-houses, 

 founded by Bryan Duppa, bishop of Winchester, dedi- 

 cated in courtly, though scarcely reverend style, " Deo 

 et Carolo, to God and King Charles," by the above 

 prelate. A conjunction which, more especially if we 

 bear in mind the depraved character of the King, 

 Charles II., savours a little of profaneness on the part 

 of the bishop, and would lead us to infer that he held 

 both in equal fear and equal honor ; and that he could 

 occasionally make a sacrifice of his religion to his loy- 

 alty. The view from Richmond Hill is truly delightful, 

 and though it has often been celebrated in verse by 

 poets, and on canvass by painters, and though some 



of each class hav 



the modesty of nature," 



or colours, has been abl< 



their delineation "o'erstepped 

 no one, either in prose, verse, 

 to improve it, or make it seem 





