‘CURIOSITIES OF ANGLING LITERATURE. 253 
“In Surrey is a place called ‘the Swallow,’ under 
White Hill, and where the river Mole, called the 
English Anas, runs under ground for about two miles, 
so that the inhabitants may boast, as the Spaniards 
do of their Guadiana, that they have a bridge which 
feeds several flocks of sheep.” 
White Hill, so marked upon old maps, but now 
known as Box Hill, has nothing whatever to do with 
hiding the Mole, nor is its course for.a single foot 
hidden from the sight of those who, like ourselves, 
have followed its every inch from the many streamlets 
of its source down to the Thames. Camden, however, 
generally pretty accurate; Izaak Walton, devoted’ 
to truth; Chamberlayn, in Present State of Great 
Britain, 1743; Milton, “Sullen Mole that. runneth 
underneath ;” Pope, Drayton, and others, have all 
“swallowed” this apocryphal text. 
“Bishop Tunstal first discovered that the fathom- 
less Hell-Kettles, near Darlington, had passages 
under ground. He marked a goose for a trial, and 
then put him down, and afterwards found him in the 
tiver Tees.” 
“The snow lies eight months,” Tournford tells us, 
“on the mountains Ararat and Caucasus, and breeds 
white worms as big as one’s little finger, which being 
crushed, there issues out a moisture colder than snow 
itself.” 
“The ordinary water at Gourron breeds worms in 
