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fishing-tackle is supplied by Mr. Belloe. On the soulh 

 side of the river, a mile from Coldstream and more 

 conveniently situated for the railway station, is Corn- 

 hill, where admirable accommodation is afforded by 

 the Collingwood Arms inn. From this point the 

 angler can command the Till, and its tributary the 

 Bowmont and Glen, in addition to the Tweed. The 

 Bowmont is a beautiful water, which takes its rise in 

 Koxburghshire, and, passing through the double-village 

 of Yetholm, the historical home of the border-gypsies, 

 skirts the Cheviots, and joins the Till near Ford, close by 

 the base of the small hill of Flodden, where the Flowers 

 o' the Forest were so fatally wede away by Surrey and 

 his host of Englishmen. About four miles above its 

 junction with the Till, however, near Copeland Castle, 

 the Bowmont receives the College-burn from the Che- 

 viots, and becomes the Glen. The nearest point of 

 the Bowmont from Cornhill is at Mindrum Mill, about 

 four miles off, and here, as elsewhere, the water abounds 

 with trout, although when we last visited it we got a 

 hint that the Yetholm gypsies too frequently made a 

 raid down it with pout-nets. The trout are very fine, 

 as well as plentiful. The College is probably one of the 

 most populous streams in the kingdom, although its 

 inhabitants are tiny; and the Glen, formed by the union 

 of these two, is a celebrated trout-stream. In the 

 neighbourhood of Copeland Castle it is preserved, but 

 otherwise these waters are free. Not so the Till, the 

 public right to fish in which is constantly interrupted. 

 In its upper parts it is called, we think, the Breamish, 

 and above and below Chillingham it belongs to the 

 Earl of Tankerville, who preserves. We believe that 



