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angler will find accommodation at the village inn. The 

 lower part may be reached readily from either the Old 

 Ormiston or the Nisbet station on the Jedburgh line, 

 — and the angler wdll find it a pretty hard day's work 

 to fish thence up to Hounam, missing all the woody 

 places, there being plenty of water with grassy banks. 

 The head of the Bowmont is within reach of Hounam. 



Below Mounteviot, when salmon were more plentiful 

 than they are now, there were several casts in the 

 Teviot where a number of fish were got with the rod 

 every year. A favourable autumn flood always brings 

 a few grilses into the pools of the Teviot, but they are 

 thinly distributed, and the angler must seldom be san- 

 guine of success with his salmon -rod. Great numbers 

 of kelts have, however, hitherto been killed in this 

 river, in the spring, with the rod; and, before they took 

 a thought and mended, the kelt-killing gentry of Rox- 

 burghshire to whom we have formerly alluded used to 

 commit deadly ravages in it with the leister. In the 

 spring of 1857 a feat in kelt-fishing was performed in 

 the lower part of the Teviot by Mr. Purves of Kelso. 

 We have mislaid the paragraph from the Kelso papers 

 which chronicled the deed ; but it was, we think, from 

 Heaton-mill cauld, near Roxburgh, that in a few hours 

 one afternoon he took eight fish, weighing altogether 

 126 lbs. Two of them, kelts though they were, w^eighed 

 26 lbs. each, two others were 16 lbs., and the rest 

 smaller. It was on a frosty day, and Mr. Purves was 

 angling with minnow^ In the same piece of water Mr. 

 Stoddart has accomplished some of his most remarkable 

 victories. We have incidentally alluded to his eel, which 

 took a gorge-bait with which he w^as trolling for pike, 



