DESCRIPTION cool ma OF THE RIVER THAMES, &c. WITH THE CITY of LONDON's JURISDICTION AND CONSERVA CY Thereof PRO V E D, Both in POINT of RIGHT and BY PRESCRIPTION, CHARTERS, ACTS of To which is added, A brief DESCRIPTION of those Fish, with their WITH Some few OBSERVATIONS on the Nature, Element, AND, ALSO, Of the Water-Carriage on the River Thames, to the feveral To which are added, RULES, ORDERS, and ORDINANCES, made in Pursuance of an LONDON: Printed for T. LONGMAN in Pater-nofter-Row. 1758. か To the Right Honourable Sir Charles Afgyll, Knt. LORD MAYOR of the City of LONDON, CONSERVATOR of the River Thames, and Waters of Medway, &c. Α MY LORD, S the Confervacy of the River Thames is peculiar to that High Office in which Your Lordship is fo worthily diftinguished, I humbly prefent the following Sheets to Your Lordship. And the rather, as the Subject-Matter is of fuch Importance to this City, whofe Honour Your Lordship fo confpicuously supports, and whose Intereft You have so much at Heart. The Publication was fome Time fince intended, but deferred on Account of fome depending depending Regulations for the well-governing this noble River: Which Regulations, to the Honour of this City, through the Affiduity of its worthy Magiftrates, were happily effected Anno 1757: An Event of great Utility to the Publick, and no lefs advantageous to the Fishermen. The following Defcription was begun by a Gentleman, who had many Years the Honour to ferve this City in a Station, which gave him the greatest Opportunities of being perfectly acquainted with the Subjects; and as he has been pleased, out of Kindness, to indulge me with the Presentation hereof, I humbly offer them to the Publick, whofe Attention will of Course follow Your Lordship's Patronage; which will be efteemed the greatest Honour f by MY LORD, Your Lordship's most Dutiful And Obedient humble Servant, Robert Binnell. |