same set of weights and scales as were used to 

 weigh. Colonel Thornton's large tench, which was 

 taken at the "bottom of an old well at Thornville 

 Royal, about thirty years ago. 



THE COLNE. 



The river Colne, between Longford and Burr's 

 Mill, up the stream, a distance of four miles, contains 

 fine trout, and would afford excellent sport to the 

 fly-fisher were it not so much netted. But here, 

 except in the neighbourhood of two or three mills, 

 the fish are never allowed a week's grace ; and it is 

 only an angler who lives on the spot, and has 

 opportunity of observing where the trouts lie, that 

 has any chance of success. Large trouts are some- 

 times taken here with the fly; and, in June last, a 

 prime one, weighing seven pounds and a quarter, was 

 caught near Longford, by a gentleman of the neigh- 

 bourhood, alter an hour's struggle. Each householder 

 in Harmondsworth, a village a short distance above 

 Longford, has the privilege of netting the river 

 three times a week; and the copyholders of the 

 manor of Drayton, two miles higher up, have the 

 same liberty. Each person may take with him to 

 the water as many strangers as he pleases, and 

 allow them to use his nets, provided he remain with 

 them; and sometimes the mortified angler, just as 



