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then flows on to the Irish Sea. The Dec is justly celebrated for the 

 variety and beauty of its scenery and the abundance of its fish, being 

 well stored with salmon, trout, grayling, pike, pearch, &c. LLANGOLLEN 

 is remarkable as having been for many years the residence of two 

 maiden ladies of family, who left the world in early life, and sought 

 retirement in this sequestered vale. This beautiful village is a good 

 station for either the artist or the angler. The ALLAN meets the Dee 

 near the towns of Farnden and Holt ; a rapid torrent, also, issuing from 

 the well of St. Winifred, beneath the town of Holywell, turns a 

 number of mills in its short course to the Dee's estuary, near the 

 ruins of Basingwork Abbey in Flintshire. These tributaries are all 

 excellent trout-streams. 



THE DRIFFIELD, OB HULL, YORKSHIRE. 



THIS river has long been famous for the size and excellence of its 

 trout (said to be the largest in England), and the fishing is excellent. 

 A club has been established here for the preservation of this supe- 

 rior breed of fish, but a member can always give a day's sport to 

 a stranger. We introduce this river from its great trout celebrity, and 

 because a book has been written especially on this and other Yorkshire 

 rivers, to which we can satisfactorily refer the inquirer. It is entitled 

 Mackintosh's Driffield Angler, published at Qvintbarough, 1840, and since. 



THE COaUET, NORTHUMBERLAND. 



THE Coquet rises in Roxburghshire, but within the limits of 

 Northumberland, flowing south-east below Rothbury, and reaching the 

 sea at Warkworth, near which are the remains of the celebrated 

 Hermitage. At FELTON BRIDGE, which the Coquet passes, excellent 

 trout and salmon are taken. Oliver, in his " Recollections of Fly- 

 fishing in Northumberland," says, " Sometimes I pitch my tent in the 

 neighbourhood of WELDON BRIDGE, for the sake of a cast in the Coquet.' 

 And Hofland, ' There are not many trout-streams in England more 

 likely to afford a week's recreation to the- fly-fisher than the Coquet ; 

 nor would it be an easy matter to point out a river, on the whole, 

 more interesting, and affording better sport. The angler may un- 

 doubtedly, take larger trouts at Driffield ; and, from streams more 

 secluded, bring home a heavier creel ; but, for a week's fair fishing, 

 tTie Coquet, from Linnshiels to Warkworth, is, perhaps, surpassed by 

 none. The natural scenery of its banks is beautiful, independent of 

 the interest excited by the ruins of Brinkburn Priory, and the Her- 

 mitage of Warkworth ; and its waters, ' clear as diamond sparks,' 

 present, in their course, every variety of smooth water, rapids, and 

 pools, for the exercise of the angler's skill." 



