CONTENTS. Vll 



Vale of Gala, ib,..The Leader and its Feeders, 132... 

 Our " old Nobilitie,'' 135.. ..James Baillie of Lauder, 

 136...Carrolside-water...Earlston, 137.. .Thomas the 

 Rhymer..." The Broom of theCowdenknowes," 138... 

 Sandy kno we... Smailholm Tower, 139. 



CHAP. VI. THE TEVIOT AND ITS TRIBUTARIES, 140-68 

 Drinking and fishing in the olden times, 141... Source 

 of the Teviot, 142.. .The Allan. ..BorthAvick-water... 

 Branxholm Castle, 143...Hawick...The S]itrig...Stobbs 

 Castle, 144....Minto Castle.... Hawick Netters....The 

 Rule. ..Dcnholm... John Leyden, 145...The Ale. ..John 

 Younger again, 148-50.. .Ancrum Moor.. .The Jed, 150 

 The poet Thomson, and his angling sketch in " The 

 Seasons," I6l...rishing among trees, 152.. .Jedburgh 

 ....its antiquity. ...The Oxnam and the Kale, 154.... 

 Heaton-mill cauld...Mr. Purves's kelt-killing, 155... 

 Mr. Stoddart's monster Eel, 156... Pike and Perch in 

 the Teviot, 158. 



These Berwickshire Twius unlike each other, 159.. .Head 

 of the Whitadder, ib...The Fasney a stream in a state 

 of nature, IGO... Heather Trout, lGl...Cranshaws, 162 

 ...Bothwell-burn.. .Dye-water ..."NVatch- water, 163... 

 Blacksraill-burn... .Burn-fishing with dipping min- 

 now, lG4...Longformacus...Ellemford...Greordie Ha- 

 milton, 165...Geordie's angling feats. ..his migrations 

 ...his rule of" change," 166-7.... Fishing-inn charges 

 ...decline of toddy-drinking, 167-68. ...Hints on re- 

 freshing, 169., .Abbey St. Bathan's...Dunse, 172...The 

 Covenanters on Dunse Law...Chirnside, 173... David 

 Hume atNinewells...Allanton, 174.. .The Blackadder 

 ...The Legend of Twinlaw-Cairns, 175... Straighten- 

 ing of water-courses, 176.. ..Greenlaw — The protec- 

 tionist system on the Blackadder, 177.. ..Lower part 

 of the "Whitadder, 178. ..The Anacharis Alsinastrum, 

 179. 



CHAP. VIII. THE EYE, THE TYNE, THE ESKS, 181-91 

 The Eye, Grant's House, Reston, Ayton, 181-2.. .The 

 Tyne, its upper waters, 183... Haddingtor... rigid pre- 



