[71] The reaches in a river are those parts which extend from point to point. Johnson has not the word precisely in this sense; but it is very common, and I believe used wheresoever a navigable river can be found in this country.
LETTER XXIII.
Pœna autem vehemens ac multò sævior illis,
Quas et Cæditius gravis invenit aut Rhadamanthus,
Nocte dieque suum gestare in pectore testem.
Juvenal. Sat. 13. ll. 197-9.
Think [our] former state a happy dream,
From which awaked, the truth of what we are
Shows us but this,—I am sworn brother now