The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . TDK EIlES, TIIK IETTIJIII., AND THK CALIlfcW. The Eden-.] EDEN HALL. 303 to those returning from Cumberland fails -with their brains heated and theiijudgment confused by hours of rustic dissipation. You remember the graphicaccount in Redgauntlct of Darsie Latimers mishap on the northern shore, andhis rescue by the Laird of the Lakes on his great Hack steed. Scott in hisnovel gives a vivid account of the salmon-fishing on the Sohvay: how horse-men with barbed spears dashed at full gallop into
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . TDK EIlES, TIIK IETTIJIII., AND THK CALIlfcW. The Eden-.] EDEN HALL. 303 to those returning from Cumberland fails -with their brains heated and theiijudgment confused by hours of rustic dissipation. You remember the graphicaccount in Redgauntlct of Darsie Latimers mishap on the northern shore, andhis rescue by the Laird of the Lakes on his great Hack steed. Scott in hisnovel gives a vivid account of the salmon-fishing on the Sohvay: how horse-men with barbed spears dashed at full gallop into the receding tide, and spearedthe fish with wondrous skill. This picturesc^ue mode is long out of date, andstake nets, which, when the tide is out, stretch like huge serpents over the sand,are now the principal engines of eaptiu-e. The Solway has somewhat dwindledof late epochs; geologists report it as receding seaward at the rate of a mile acentury, which is lightning speed for that species of alteration—but twas ever ahasty Firth! The Edex is our first river. During its course of thirty-five m
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