

weighing seven pounds, was killed- by a blow from 

 a mill-wheelin the Lea, in the spring of 1834 ; and 

 every innkeeper, from Hertford to Blackwall, is 

 ready to swear that it was caught with a fly in his 

 water. Old Tim Bates, of Waltham, who certainly 

 has the eyes of a lynx for seeing through water, 

 declares that he frequently sees trout as long as 

 your arm, and weighing at least a dozen pounds, 

 playing about; but on such occasions he is, as he 

 says, so unlucky as to be always alone. In plain 

 truth, the Lea is good for nothing as a trout-stream; 

 and though, during the season, in a course of twenty 

 miles, three or four dozen may be taken, by the 

 same number of anglers, who always try for a trout 

 whenever they are informed where one lies ; yet he 

 who goes out to the Lea expressly for the sake of 

 angling for trout, will be very likely to return dis- 

 appointed, ninety-nine times out of a hundred. The 

 next time any gentleman succeeds in taking two 

 " brace" of trouts in one day, no matter how small 

 they may be, the proprietor of the water where they 

 are caught ought to publish the fact in the G-azette. 

 About two miles below the Bye-house, is Page's, the 

 "Eel and Pike," which used to be much frequented 

 by anglers, and to which there belongs about a mile 

 of water, free to those who frequent the house. A 

 mile lower down than Page's, is the Crown, Brox- 

 bourn Bridge, a house which is respectably conducted, 

 and where the angler will meet with comfortable 

 quarters; always provided that he is not a stranger, 



