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the finest character possible for angling, 

 where a fisherman of my acquaintance has 

 hooked thirty fish in a morning. The river 

 was then perfect, and it might easily be 

 brought again into the same state ; but even 

 as it is now, with this single good pool and 

 this second tolerable one, I know no place 

 where I could, in the summer months, be so 

 secure of sport as here — certainly no where 

 in Great Britain. 



Poiet. — I have often heard the Tay and 

 the Tweed vaunted as salmon rivers. 



Hal. — They were good salmon rivers, and 

 are still very good, as far as the profit of the 

 proprietor is concerned; but, for angling, 

 they are very much deteriorated. The net 

 fishing, which is constantly going on except 

 on Sundays and in close time, suffers very 

 few fish to escape ; and a Sunday's flood 

 offers the sole chance of a good day's sport, 

 and this only in particular parts of these 

 rivers. I remember the Tweed and the 

 Tay in a far better state. The Tweed, in 

 the late Lord Somerville's time, always con- 

 tained taking-fish after every flood in the 



