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3. Trent, so called from thirty kind 1 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 rivers 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, 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. These, and the rest of principal note, 2 are thus 

 comprehended in one of Mr. Drayton's sonnets. 



Our flood's queen, Thames, for ships and swans is crown'd ; 



And stately Severn for her shore is prais'd ; 

 The crystal Trent for fords and fish renown'd ; 



And Avon's fame to Albion's cliffs is rais'd. 



1 I never could reckon up more than twenty -two different sorts of fish in 

 the Trent, assisted as I was by a person residing on the banks of that river. 

 The tradition, however, of there being thirty species of fish in the Trent, 

 is, at least, as old as Spenser. Thus, in the "Faerie Queene," book iv. 

 canto xi. : 



"And bounteous Trent, that in himselfe enseames, 

 Both thirty sorts of fish, and thirty sundry streames." 



ED. 



2 It would have been beside the author's purpose, and, indeed, incon- 

 sistent with the brevity of his work, to have given such a description and 

 history of the rivers of this kingdom as some readers would wish for. 

 Such, however, maybe found in Selden's Note on the Polyolbion, with a great 

 variety of curious and useful learning on the subject. H. [Since this there 

 have been many accounts of rivers. Among those of the Thames, Murray's 

 "Pictorial Tour," is the most convenient. " Kambles by Rivers," in 6 

 small vols. published by Mr. Charles Knight, comprises pleasing accounts 

 of some of the principal rivers of England. But the most useful to the 



