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world, and the most abounding with excellent Salmon, 

 and all sorts of delicate fish. 



Fiat. Pardon me, Sir, for tempting you into this di- 

 gression : and then proceed to your other rivers, for I am 

 mightily delighted with this Discourse. 



Pise. It was no interruption, but a very seasonable 

 question ; for Trent is not only one of our Derbyshire 

 rivers, but the chief of them, and into which all the rest 

 pay the tribute of their names, which I had, perhaps, 

 forgot to insist upon, being got to the other end of the 

 county, had you not awoke my memory. But 1 will now 

 proceed. And the next river of note, for I will take them 

 as they lie eastward from us, is the river Wye ; I say of 

 note, for we have, two lesser betwixt us and it, namely 

 Lathkin and Bradford; of which Lathkin is, by many 

 degrees, the purest and most transparent stream that I 

 ever yet saw, either at home or abroad, and breeds, it is 

 said, the reddest, and the best Trouts in England : but 

 neither of these are to be reputed rivers, being no better 

 than great springs. The river Wye, then, has its source 

 near unto Buxton, a town some ten miles from hence, 

 famous for a warm bath, and which you are to ride 

 through in your way to Machhester : a black water, too, 

 at the fountain, but, by the sime reason with Dove, be- 

 comes very soon a most delicate clear river, and breeds 

 admirable Trout and Grayling, reputed by those, who, by 

 living upon its banks are partial to it, the best of any : 

 and this, running down by Ashford, Bakewell, and Had- 

 den, at a town a little lower, called Rowsly, falls into 

 Derwent, and there loses its name. 1 The next in order is 



(I) By this it appears, that there are two rivers in England that bear the name 

 of Wye: the forner fPyc, occasionally mentioned, p. 117, n. ICC, I '.'5, u. aud 

 elsevhere in this work, has, as well as tbe Severn, it* head in the Plinlinur.no 

 hill, on the borders nl Montgomery and Cardiganshire ; from whence, at iis Latin 

 name. Vaga, isnpoits, wandering through part of Brecknockshire, it, near tbe 

 Hay, enters Herefordshire, and at Morditord, within lour miles of Hereford, 



