HE number of English rivers known by names of
one syllable is remarkable. ‘Those young people
who study the geography of their native land will at
once remember many such—as the Thames, the
Trent, the Tweed, the Ouse, the Cam, the Dee, and
others.
But the following list, though not a complete one,
contains the names of nearly two hundred broad

 

ENGLISH RIVERS.

rivers and sweet babbling brooks, all of which bear
simple names, often compounded of three letters ;
names by which they have been known these thou-
sand years. Some names have three or four different
streams belonging to them. The name Blyth, or
Blythe, seems to be the most favourite river-name ;
whilst the names of Wear, Swift, Dart, Gwash, Ouse,
and Swill, seem the most expressive.

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