198 THE RIDDLE OP THE BURBOT 



Referring to Izaak Walton's testimony to the 

 presence of grayling in the Hampshire Avon, it is to be 

 regretted that x.-q have no information as to how they 

 came to be in that river. It is highly improbable that 

 they should be indigenous there, and absent from the 

 Test and Itchen, streams of similar character flowing 

 in courses parallel to the Avon and at no great distance 

 from it. 



