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on the Jast day of the season. Inere is a station on 

 the branch of the North Eastern at Carham, and 

 capital trouting may be had. At the mouth of Carham- 

 biirn, which joins the river at the bend above Carham, 

 the Tweed becomes the boundary between the two 

 kingdoms, in place of the "ideal line" which stretches 

 from this point to the Liddel. The Tweed continues 

 to mark the " march " between England and Scotland 

 until about three miles from its mouth, the final ab- 

 sorption of Berwick-upon-Tweed and its liberties by 

 England having diverted the line of division from 

 being thus continued to the sea. The Wark fishings > 

 and the Lees fishings, belonging respectively to Lord 

 Tankerville and Sir John Majoribanks, intervene be- 

 tween Carham and Coldstream, which latter town 

 affords the most suitable position from which to fish 

 the lower part of the Tweed. 



Coldstream is a border town of about 2000 inhabit- 

 ants, with Lees House on the one side, and the Hirsel, 

 the modern seat of the Earls of Home, on the other. 

 The late Earl of Home, as we have mentioned, was 

 a noted salmon-angler, and in the neighbourhood of 

 Coldstream most of his triumphs were effected. He 

 is stated to have killed with his rod here a salmon 

 fifty pounds in weight. Few salmon of this weight have 

 ever been caught in the Tweed, the largest of late years 

 having been a little more than forty pounds; but from 

 the largeness of some of the kelts occasionally taken 

 — which are little more than the skeletons of salmon 

 — it is evident that, amongst the " grey schule" 

 which enter the river to spawn in January, fish of 

 gigantic proportions visit the Tweed. Last year, Lord 



