The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . THE OllETA IIETWKKN . hL>rtICK (/I. 298). The Lkven.] THE LEVEN. 293 makes the bottom 240 foot at the maximum depth) the char, only to he fomid iua few locaHties in the thioe kingdoms, occurs. Its capture with rod and line issport of a kind, but it is inferior in this respect to the trout. At a time when theavailable rivers for the angler who cannot afford to be his own riparian owner arebecoming fewer and fewer, it is a little remarkable that these countless becks,
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . THE OllETA IIETWKKN . hL>rtICK (/I. 298). The Lkven.] THE LEVEN. 293 makes the bottom 240 foot at the maximum depth) the char, only to he fomid iua few locaHties in the thioe kingdoms, occurs. Its capture with rod and line issport of a kind, but it is inferior in this respect to the trout. At a time when theavailable rivers for the angler who cannot afford to be his own riparian owner arebecoming fewer and fewer, it is a little remarkable that these countless becks, tarns, full-sizedstreams and lakesare not morehighly prized bythe fisherman-tourist. It is truethat Windermere,from one cause., _ .3%, >-_>*- ^^^ -?? ^^^-- ^ nxmmKMj^^ and another, THE DERWEST, WITH KESWICK IN THE DISTANCE (p. 299). of late years fallen inti> disrepute, but under the operations of a local association the uerwent at ckosthwaite {p. 29S). there has been distinct imj^rovement, though steamer traffic must always seriously reduce the value of such fishing haunts. Very pleasing to the eye are the undulating shores, and the green of the grass,and the foliage of Windermere at its southern end. At Lakeside it is so narrowthat it is hard to jnit your finger on the spot where the Leven begins, though,for want of a better, Newby Bridge, as shown in the illustration (p. 284), willserve. The Leven, as before remarked, is the last link of our Windermere chain,but after Rothay and Brathay, and the becks with their forces and falls, we needgive it but the consideration which is due to an outlet bearing to the sea suchwaters as Windermere does not want, through the long tortuous chamiel in thesandy wastes of Morecambe Bay. The Chake river falls into the Leven
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