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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 Sun- 

 days 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 contained taking- 

 fish after every flood in the summer. In the 

 Tay, only ten years ago, at Mickleure, I was 

 myself one of two anglers who took eight fine 



