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3. Trent, so called from thirty kind of fishes that are 

 found in it, or for that it receiveth thirty lesser rivers ; 

 who, having his fountain in Staffordshire, and gliding 

 through the counties of Nottingham, Lincoln, Leicester, 

 and York, augmenteth the turbulent current of Humber, 

 the most violent stream of all the isle. This Humber is 

 not, to say truth, a distinct river having a spring-head of 

 his own, but it is rather the mouth or cestuarium of divers 

 rivers here confluent and meeting together, namely, your 

 Derwent, and especially of Ouse and Trent ; and (as the 

 Danow, having received into its channel the river Dravus, 

 Savus, Tibiscus, and divers others) changeth his name into 

 this of Humberabus, as the old geographers call it. 



4. Medway, a Kentish river; famous for harbouring the 

 royal navy. 



5. Tweed t the north-east bound of England ; on whose 

 northern banks is seated the strong and impregnable 

 town of Berwick. 



6. Tyne, famous for Newcastle, and her inexhaustible 

 coal-pits. 1 These, and the rest of principal note, are thus 

 comprehended in one of Mr. Drayton's Sonnets. 



Our floods' quern, Thamtv. for ships and swans is crown'd; 



And stately Severn for her shore is prais'd ; 

 The crystal Trent, for fords and fih rmown'd ; 



And Avon't fame to Albion's cliffs is rais'd. 



Carlegian Chester Taunts her holy Dee ; 



York many wonder* of her Oute can tell ; 

 The Peak, her Dove, whose baoks so fertile be. 

 And Krat will say her Medway doth excel. 



(I) It would have been beside the author's purpose, and indeed inconsistent 

 with the brevity of his work, to have Riven such a description and history of the 

 riven of this kingdom, as some readers would wish for. Such, however, may 

 find, in Sclden's NoUn on the Polyolbion, a great variety of curious and useful 

 learning on the subject. And it were to be wished that some person skilled 

 like Leland, Camden, Lambarde, or that excellent person above mentioned, in 

 the antiquities of this country, if any such there are, would undertake the 

 delightful task of surveying them, and giving their history. 



In the meanwhile we would recommend to our angler the use of a map of the. 

 county where he fishes ; by means whereof he may see the rivers contained in 

 it, with their courses; which is peihaps as much as a mere angler need know 

 about the matter. 



