216 THE COMPLETE ANGLEtt. PART 



CHAP. XIX. 

 Of several RIVERS, and some Observation* on FISH. 



Piscator. WELL, scholar, since the ways and weather 

 do both favour us, and that we see not Tottenham-Cross, 

 you shall see my willingness to satisfy your desire. And, 

 first, for the rivers of this nation : there be, as you may 

 note out of Doctor Heylin's Geography, 1 and others, in 

 number 325 ; but those of chiefest note he reckons and 

 describes as followeth. 



The chief is T/tamisis, compounded of two rivers, 

 Thame and Isis; whereof the former, rising somewhat 

 beyond Thame in Buckinghamshire, and the latter near 

 Cirencester in Gloucestershire, meet together about Dor- 

 chester in Oxfordshire ; the issue of which happy conjunc- 

 tion is the Thamisis, or Thames ; * hence it flieth between 



(1) It ihould be Dr. Heylin't Cosmography, a book well known. Great 

 conruMon arises from tli* want of a clear idea of the many words in our lan- 

 guage that have this termination; but it seems they are well understood by 

 some. About forty years ago, Mr. Jefferys, a printsellrr at the corner of St. 

 Martin's-laoe, and a great engraver of maps, got himself to be enrolled in the 

 list of the servants of Fiedenck. prince of Wales, by the designation of Geogra- 

 pher to his Koyal Highness. Rocque, who published the great map of London, 

 at that time a you 05 man, and desirous of an honourable adjunct to his name, 

 applied, shortly after, to the servants of the Prince, and, with t'.if tender of a 

 proper gratuity, solicited the tame appointment; but was given to understand 

 by them, that he was too late, for that the office of Geographer was disposed 

 of; but they, (probably bearing the chink of his money) comforted him by 

 saying, that they could set him down in terms of their own invention, either 

 Topographer, or Chorographer,to bis Royal Highness the Prince. The charms 

 of these sonorous appellations were too strong to be resisted. Mr. Rocque, 

 therefore, after due deliberation upon a matter so important, made choice of the 

 former; and, in addition to his name, caused it to be painted on the front of 

 his shop in the Strand. 



(9) Though the current opinion is. that the Thames had its name from the 

 conjunction of Thame aud liw, it plainly appears that the 7m was always 

 called Thames, or Tcrru, before it came near the Tame. Gibbon's Camden, 

 edit 1753. p. 99 



And as to the head of the Thame, although it is generally supposed to be in 

 Oxfordshire, Camden (whom we may suppose Walton followed), Brit. 215, says 

 it is in Buckinghamshire. 



But what shall we say to the following account which Lambarde has adopted ? 



