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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, 'tis 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 Manchester : 

 a black water too at the fountain, but, by the same reason 

 with Dove, becomes very soon a most delicate clear river, 

 and breeds admirable trout and grayling, reputed by those, 

 w r ho, by living upon its banks, are partial to it, the best of 

 any; and this running down by Ashford, Bakewell, and 

 Haddon, at a town a little lower called Rowsley, falls into 

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

 Derwent, a black water too, and that not only from its 

 fountain, but quite through its progress, not having these 

 crystal springs to wash and cleanse it, which the two fore- 

 mentioned have ; but abounds with trout and grayling, such 

 as they are, towards its source, and with salmon below : and 

 this river, from the upper and utmost part of this county, 

 where it springs, taking its course by Chatsworth, Darley, 

 Matlock, Derby, Burrow-Ash, and Aw r berson, falls into 

 Trent at a place called AVildon, and there loses its name. 

 The east side of this county of Derby is bounded by little 

 inconsiderable rivers, as Awber, Eroways, and the like, 

 scarce worth naming, but trouty too, and further we are not 

 to inquire. But, sir, I have carried you, as a man may say, 

 by water, till we are now come to the descent of the 



1 By this it appeai-s that there are two rivers in England which bear the 

 name of Wye ; the former Wye, occasionally mentioned in this work, has, 

 as well as the Severn, its head in the Plinlimmon-hill, on the borders of 

 Montgomery and Cardiganshire ; from whence, as its Latin name Vaya 

 imports, wandering through part of Brecknockshire, it, near the Hay, 

 enters Herefordshire; and at Mordiford, within four miles of Hereford, 

 receives the Lug ; from thence, passing on to Ross, it enters Monmouth- 

 shire, and falls into the Severn below Chepstow. It abounds with that 

 .small species of fish called last-springs, and also with grayling. And 

 here it may be necessary to remark, that the names of Avon, Ouse, Stour, 

 and some others, are common to many rivers in England, as that of 

 Dulas is to numbers in Wales. See "Notes on the Polyolbion," Song the 

 sixth. H. 



