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sake ; and I think you have done wrong to 

 relinquish this idea, for, as far as my recol- 

 lection serves me, the rivers that contain it 

 are near the ruins of great monasteries. 

 The Avon, near Salisbury; the Ure, near 

 Fountain's Abbey; the Wye, near the great 

 Abbey of Tintern ; and, if I am not mis- 

 taken, in the lower part of this valley there 

 are the remains of an extensive establish- 

 ment of friars. 



HAL. But there are rivers near the ruins 

 of some of the most magnificent establish- 

 ments of this kind in Europe, and those 

 nearest the continent, where the grayling is 

 not found; for instance, in the Stour, at 

 Canterbury. . And if the grayling be an 

 imported fish, it is wonderful that it should 

 not be found in the rivers in Kent, and 

 along the south-west coast of England, as 

 in Dorsetshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall, 

 where the monastic establishments were 

 numerous; and why it should be found in 

 some rivers in the mountainous parts of 

 Wales as in that near Llan-wrted and the 

 Dee ; not near Val Crusis Abbey, but fif- 



