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and, if there is a slight flood, he will generally be well 

 rewarded. 



Eddleston-water enters the Tweed just at Peebles, 

 separating indeed the old from the new part of the 

 town. The Peebles railway joins the vale through 

 which the Eddleston flows about seven miles from 

 Peebles, and follows it down to the ancient burgh, 

 where railway and stream both terminate. The upper 

 part of the Eddleston owns the sway of Mr. William 

 Forbes Mackenzie of Portmore, but we are not aware 

 that he has made any attempts to impose restrictions 

 upon the angler's traffic in it. It is below Portmore, 

 however, that the best fishing is to be had, and the 

 angler may either get out at Eddleston station and fish 

 down (about five miles) to Peebles, or may go to 

 Peebles and fish back to Eddlestone. If he is using 

 minnow, or if the water is coloured, the former would 

 be the better course ; if the water is clear, and he is 

 fishing with fly or worm, we should recommend the 

 latter. 



Peebles is a highly eligible station for the angler. 

 The arms of the burgh are three salmon, but, like the 

 pretensions of the town itself, these are emblematic 

 rather of the traditional past than of the actual present. 

 In the last generation some of the best and most suc- 

 cessful salmon-fishers of the Tweed were burghers of 

 Peebles, but probably not- one of their successors can 

 boast the capture of a clean salmon per annum for 

 twenty years past. Now that kelt-killing is abolished, 

 the occupation of the Peebles salmon-fishers is gone, 

 unless an occasional clean fish or two should in future 

 be permitted to make their way so far up. The Peebles 



