The Thames at Hampton. 



THE FIFTH DAY. 



(Continued.) 



CHAPTER XIX. 



OP SEVERAL RIVERS, AND SOME OBSERVATIONS OF FISH. 



Pise. Well, scholar, since the ways and weather do both 

 favour us, and that we yet 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 three 

 hundred and twenty-five ; but those of chiefest note he 

 reckons and describes as followeth. 



The chief is Thamisis, 2 compounded of two rivers, Tharne 



1 Dr. Peter Heylin was born at Burford, in Oxfordshire, November 29th, 

 1600. In 1619 he was made fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and in 

 1621 he published his "Microcosmos," quoted in the text. He was sted- 

 fastly attached to King Charles I., and wrote for him the weekly paper 

 entitled, Mercurius Aulicus, though his loyalty reduced him to great 

 poverty. He died on May 8th, 1662. ED. 



2 The Thames may be the chief of rivers in some respects ; but had 

 Walton seen the Shannon, he must have retained a lasting impression of a 

 river which is really wonderful for so small an island as Ireland. The 



