KEYNSHAM, (Somerset) 90 cm. 111 mm. from London, is a great thoroughfare in the lower road bet. Bath and Bristol. They
call it proverbially smoaky Keynsham, and with equal reason they might call it foggy. It has a fine large Ch. a stone
bridge of 15 arches over the Avon to Glocestershire, and another over the r. Chew. Its chief trade is malting. In the
neighbourhood there is a quarry, where stones are often found of a serpentine form, but generally without the
representation of a head. Here was in the R. of Henry II. a priory, and a chace; and there is now the seat of George
Brydges, Esq; and a ch, sc. The Mt. here is on Th. Some time of the spring every year the r. here swarms with millions of
little eels, scarce as big as goose-quills, which the people catch on the top of the water with small nets, and by an art
they have, make them scower off their skins, when they look very white, and then make them into cakes, which they fry, and
eat. In other Counties they are reckoned a dainty.