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not far from Stafford to Wolsey-bridge, and, washing 

 the skirts and purlieus of the forest of Needwood, runs 

 down to Burton in the same county ; thence it comes into 

 this where we now are, and, running by Swarkeston and 

 Dunnington, receives Derwent at Wildou ; and so to Not- 

 tingham, thence to Newark, and by Gainsborough to 

 Kingston-upon-Hull, where it takes the name of Humber, 

 and thence falls into the sea : but that the map will best 

 inform you. 



Viat. Know you whence this river Trent derives its 

 name? 



Pise. No, indeed, and yet I have heard it often discoursed 

 upon, when some have given its denomination from the 

 fore-named Trentham, though that seems rather a derivative 

 from it ; others have said, 'tis so called from thirty rivers 

 that fall into it, and there lose their names ; which cannot 

 be neither, because it carries that name from its very 

 fountain, before any other rivers fall into it: others 

 derive it from thirty several sorts of fish that breed there ; 

 and that is the most likely derivation; but be it how it 

 will, it is doubtless one of the finest rivers in the world, and 

 the most abounding with excellent salmon, and all sorts of 

 delicate fish. 1 



Viat. Pardon me, sir, for tempting you into this digres- 

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

 mightily delighted with this discourse. 



Pise. It was no interruption, but a very seasonable ques- 

 tion ; 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 I 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 



1 There are no salmon in the Trent now, but many fine trout and gray- 

 ling, especially near its source, and for many miles as it crosses Stafford- 

 shire. When it reaches the counties of Nottingham and Derby there are 

 but few trout and grayling, but the river abounds through its whole 

 course with pike, pearch, barbel, chub, and other coarse fish. (See note at 

 page 298.) ED. 



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