good Pike, Perch, and other fish in these rivers, and in Mr. Brown's water, four or five miles above Dorchester, the Trout are extremely plentiful. Durham. The TEES rises in that part of Cumberland called Stanemore; the mountains from which the Tees derives its origin are gigantic, and Teesdale presents a long winding fertile stripe, surrounded by some of the wildest districts in the kingdom. The Tees is crossed often, it almost encircles Bernard Castle by an extraordinary foot bridge suspended by iron chains, below Rokeby Park it receives the Greta from Yorkshire, and another small stream from the Durham Moors, and forms a fine feature in the territory which surrounds Raby Castle. The Tees still preserves its rapid character, as it divides this county from Yorkshire, presenting a striking object from which ever side it is viewed. At Stockton this river is affected by the tide, admits ships of considerable burden, and soon loses itself in the sea. The Tees possesses few fish except Salmon, the stream is so very rapid and even furious in winter, and in summer is often almost dry; in its deep pits, are some Trout. The WEARE finds its source in the same wild range of Moors as the Tees, but considerably to the north of that river. The Weare may be called a miniature of the Tees, much resembling it in character, and Wearedale (like Teesdale) is a very wild district; emerging from hence, the Weare flows below the Park of Bishops Auckland, where it receives the Gaunless, and observes its winding course in deep dales till arrested by the circular hill crowned by the Cathedral and Castle of Durham, whose walls overhang this river from the summit of a perpendicular rock; the wooded banks of the Weare exhibit much romantic scenery about Cocken, and its exit to the sea near the crowded port of Sun- derland, is graced with an Iron-bridge, matchless in its design and architecture, beneath which vessels may pass in full sail. It consists of a single arch, which spans two hundred and thirty-six feet, and rises at its centre one hundred feet above high water mark. The TYNE will be noticed in the county of Northumberland; besides the above are the Derwent, Laden-hude, Bander, Lune, and Skern; the former has a short course from its rise in the Durham Moors, till it becomes environed with coal-works, and the others run into the Tees. These rivers afford Salmon, Salmon Trout, Trout, &c. Just below Durham a skilful Angler will obtain as much fish as he can wish for. Essex. The BLACKWATER and the CHELMER are the rivers of most note besides the Thames in this county, the Crouch and the Bromhill being inconsiderable streams, except at their mouths. The upper branch which bears the name of the Blackwater throughout, rises near Saffron Walden, on the borders of Cambridgeshire, runs through Braintree, and thence nearly southward to Malden; the Chelmer, which rises near Thaxted, and taking its course by Dunmow, pursues nearly a parallel course with the Blackwater to the south-east, as far as Chelmsford, from whence it makes a compass towards the east to join its sister stream; the Estuary of the Blackwater, which is formed below Malden, after the union of the two rivers, is very extensive. The COLNE is a small river, and rises on the borders of Suffolk, near Clare, runs through Halsted, and from thence to Colchester, below which it empties itself into a creek of the sea, between Mersey Island and the Main. At the mouth of this river, and the salt water inlets, are bred and fattened the famous Oysters. The STOUR of Essex rises at a place called Sturmer, not far from Haverhill, on the borders of Cambridgeshire, passes through Sudbury, from which place, by an Act of the fourth of Queen ANNE, it was made navigable to Maningtree, where the tide meets it, and at Mistley it is at high water a beautiful object to the Hall, the seat of the late Mr. Rigby; it is joined by the Brett near Neyland, and dividing this county from Suffolk at Harwich, meets the Orwell from Ipswich, and both rivers fall into the sea beneath the batteries of Landguard Fort, on the Suffolk shore. The Lea rises near Luton, in Bedfordshire, in a Marsh called Leagrave, and pursues a south-east course to Hertford and Ware. Though in itself but a sluggish river, the country through which it flows, particularly near Hertford, is extremely pleasant; about the central part of its course, it is increased by various small streams, of which, the Stort, the Quan, the Bean, and the Maran, are the principal. Soon after its outset, the late Earl of Bute swelled the Lea into a large lake at his park at Luton Hoo; it undergoes a second artificial enlargement in Brocket Park, the ornamented seat of Viscount Melborne. The Lea divides Essex from Middlesex, bounded on one side by the wooded hills of Epping Forest, and on the other by the heights of Barnet and Highgate; the level afterwards becomes very considerable as this river approaches Hackney, and still more so, as it advances towards the THAMES, which it falls into a little below Stepney. These rivers are all slow and deep, produce Carp, Tench, Pike, Perch, and Eels, but very few Salmon or Trout; they are so poached, particularly near the towns which they pass, as to materially injure the Angler's amusement. A part of the Lea is however well looked after, in which there is good angling for Perch, Pike, Chub, Roach, Dace, Gudgeons, and Barbel. At Stourmere (the source of the STOUR) the Tench and Pike are singularly fine. ? Gloucestershire. The SEVERN is large, and for the length of its navigation, may be said to rival the THAMES. This river comes into the county two miles above Tewksbury, to which place, and sometimes higher, (altho' seventy miles from the sea,) the tide flows. The tide swells not by degrees, but the mouth of the river opening to the great Atlantic Ocean, pours in with great violence, four or five feet high, and carries. every thing before it, and the river growing suddenly narrow, the channel is filled at once; another singular circumstance is, that the tides are highest one year at the full Moon, and the next year at the change; and also that in one year the night tides are highest, and the next the day tides; it is navigable to Shrewsbury, which is by land, fifty miles above Gloucestershire. The Severn rises in a small lake on the eastern side of Plinlimmon Hill, in Montgomeryshire, and in that county is capable of carrying large barges from King's Road up to. Pool-Quay; afterwards, it almost encircles Shrewsbury, in the form of a Horse-shoe, receiving the Tern a little below in Lord Berwick'sgrounds, it runs through Colebrooke Dale, and then flows southward to Bridgnorth, where it is joined by the Wort and by the Stour below Bewdley; it then proceeds to Worcester and Gloucester, (whose Cathedrals and numerous Churches present fine objects to the course of the Severn,) dividing near the latter city into two channels, which. soon re-uniting, constitute a great tide river, and after joining the Wye and the Lower Avon, assumes the title of the Bristol Channel, expanding and insensibly losing itself in the Atlantic Ocean, between the Land's End of Cornwall, and the extreme point of Pembrokeshire, just at the entrance of St. George's Channel, which separates Great Britain from Ireland. The Severn is so rapid that the stream is muddy, and has no great variety of fish, it is however well furnished with fine Salmon, and in the fishery near Gloucester, abundance are taken, and forwarded to the London markets. The Lampreys of the Severn are likewise particularly celebrated. The Isis, which gives one half of the name to the THAMES, and is said to be its head, rises in the parish of Cotes in this county. The WYE rises on the south side of the Plimlimmon mountain, various rivulets add to its stream before it reaches the plain of Herefordshire; at the village of Brockware it meets the tide, and swelling at once into a majestic Estuary, fills the space between the impending woods and rocks on either side, and with great grandeur winding round the fragments of Tintern Abbey, it encompasses the rocky promontory of Llancautin, Gloucestershire, while its Monmouthshire bank is enriched by that happy combination of art and nature, with which Persfield is ornamented. The Wye then approaches Chepstow, where there is a wooden bridge of great height, the tide sometimes rising eighty feet perpendicular, beneath the flourishing port of this town it is still encompassed by cliffs, through which it rushes into the Bristol Channel. The UPPER AVON rises on the borders of Leicestershire, and adding much to the delightful territory of Warwick Castle, glides through a charming country to Stratford-on-Avon, where it receives the Lesser Stour, from thence traverses the great level of Worcestershire by Evesham, and meets the Severn at Tewksbury. The Chelt, the Stroud, the Cam, and the Little Avon, all fall into the Severn after its junction with the Upper Avon. The Stroud accompanying its canal from the town of that name, and the Little Aron washing the memorable walls of Berkeley Castle, where EDWARD II. was inhumanly murdered, and which is the event alluded to by GRAY's Prophetic Bard. "The shrieks of death thro' Berkley's roofs that ring, The LOWER AVON rises not far from Wootton Basset, in the hilly district of North Wiltshire, bordering upon this county. Emerging from the hills it runs through the cloathing part of Wiltshire, bordering upon that of Somersetshire, and for some space divides the |