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the largest of its tributaries. The view on all sides is 

 very fine. The green Eildons are just far enough off 

 to be softened into blue ; the vale of Teviot lies open 

 to the south; the massive shoulder of Cheviot bars the 

 prospect into Northumberland; eastward the fertile 

 Merse smiles like a garden ; and to the north, Hume 

 Castle, standing on a huge rock, intervenes between 

 the black and distant Lammermoors. Kelso has about 

 6000 inhabitants — and we ought not to omit to notice 

 that amongst them is Mr. T. T. Stoddart, the author 

 of various angling-books (his chef d'oeuvre being The 

 Angler's Companion) as well as of a volume of poems 

 which has furnished us with a number of quotations, 

 and of several other works in lighter literature. We 

 can perhaps say nothing that will give a higher idea 

 of the suitableness of Kelso as an angling-station, than 

 that we believe Mr. Stoddart, who is a member of the 

 Scottish Bar, has taken up his residence there almost 

 solely because of the conveniences which it affords for 

 the exercise of his rod. Here, too, resides a noted 

 angler — whose superior, indeed, we have not yet heard 

 of — Mr. David Eobertson. Tweed, Teviot, and almost 

 all its tributaries, Eden, and the head of Bowmont, 

 are within easy reach, and offer every variety to the 

 angler. The Teviotdale Angling Club, of which Mr. 

 Stoddart is secretary, has its headquarters here, and 

 on many occasions the prize baskets of its members, 

 at their annual competition, have been most ponder- 

 ous. Mr. Forrest, whose rods and flies are celebrated 

 throughout the kingdom — and have even done yeo- 

 man's service in Norway and Canada — has his shop 

 here. Probably his salmon-flies are not surpassed by 



