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THE KENNET. 



The trouts of the Kennet, a river which rises not 

 far from Marlbro' in Wiltshire, and after passing 

 through Berkshire, by Hungerford, Newbury, and 

 Reading, runs into the Thames, are deservedly cele- 

 brated "both for size and quality. That part of the 

 water which is common, unfortunately for the an- 

 gler, is much netted; and the rest, which runs 

 through gentlemen's grounds, is mostly preserved. 

 In the neighbourhood of Reading, trouts are scarce, 

 and it is not worth any person's while to visit this 

 town, for the sake of angling in the Kennet. About 

 Newbury they are more plentiful; and he who can 

 throw lightly a long line, may here, during the 

 months of May, June, and July, in the course of a 

 day's fishing, take a dozen or a dozen and a half of 

 trout, veritable yellow fins, which might excite the 

 admiration of a North-countryman, and would weigh 



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