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in Northamptonshire, and is one hundred miles in length, 

 and presents to the sportsman a considerable variety of 

 waters — some for bottom-fishing and some for fly. It 

 has likewise many tributaries : the Swift, the Sow, the 

 Learn, the Dene, the Stour, and the Arrow. In the 

 higher localities of the main river — from Milverton to 

 Rieton, or Woolston — the fly-fishing, in the early portion 

 of the season, is very excellent. There are likewise 

 many fish, though small, in the feeders just named ; and 

 the country by their banks is often very beautiful and 

 imposing. 



The Somersetshire Avon is navigable to Bath ; above 

 this city it receives the waters of the Frame, and 

 Midford Brooh, and likewise a stream called Chew, at 

 Keynshaw. There are likewise other small rivers in 

 Somersetshire which afford trouting sport. The Tow, or 

 Yea, springs out of the slopes of the Mendip Hills, and 

 has a run of about fourteen miles. The Brue comes 

 from the chalk-marl hills on the border of the county, 

 and after flowing through an interesting part of the 

 country for the distance of thirty miles, enters the 

 estuary of the Parret. This water is full fifty miles in 

 length, and has several feeders in which there is fair 

 fly-fishing. The Isle and the Cary are the best reputed 

 of these ; indeed, the numerous waters of these two 

 counties present a wide field to the rod-fisher, and will 

 be found extensive enough to employ him for some 

 weeks to do all their streams anything like justice. 



ANGLING RIVERS AND LAKES IN WALES 



Having now given as extended an account of the 

 fishing localities of England as our limits will permit, 

 we shall direct the rod-fisher to another choice district 

 for the prosecution of his amusement, namely, Wales. 

 This is a first-rate fly-fishing country, both for the 

 salmon and trout ; and it is now brought, by the modern 

 facilities of travelling, to within a few hours of the 

 British metropolis. 



Wales has been celebrated for hundreds of years for 



