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the seat of his patron the Duke of Queensbury. The 

 Kennet is a clear stream, running over a "bottom of 

 chalk and gravel, in some places weedy, "but never 

 like many streams in the north, hurrying with noisy 

 speed over a bottom of large pebbles or fragments of 

 rock. In the neighbourhood of Hungerford, where 

 the face of the country is more diversified with 

 rising ground than lower down, it is likely to remind 

 the angler, who has fished in that stream, of the 

 Derwent, between Malton and East Ayton, in York- 

 shire. 



A small stream, called the Lambourn, which 

 runs into the Kennet below Newbury, occasionally 

 affords good angling ; and we have heard of some 

 large trout being killed between Newbury and 

 Eastbury. But this is a capricious stream, which, 

 having its source in the chalky wolds above the 

 village of Lambourn, is like another which we 

 are acquainted with, in a different part of the coun- 

 try, but rising in and traversing a similar soil, in 

 some seasons almost dry. When it is full, we have 

 heard an angler say, who knows both streams, that 

 he prefers it to the Kennet. About twenty years 

 ago, from a pond at Welford House, on the banks 

 of the Lambourn, the seat of Mr. Hoblyn, a trout is 

 said to have been taken which weighed twenty-four 

 pounds. We have had no opportunity of ascertain- 

 ing the truth of this report, but we very much sus- 

 pect its accuracy; and are disposed to think that 

 those who weighed this trout must have used the 



