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any of ttie border-streams that yield tribute to the 

 Tweed from being similarly spoiled. No exertion 

 ought to be spared to enforce such preventives as will 

 keep the Teviot from becoming a huge and offensive 

 ditch. Cost and care, so long as they do not actually 

 become incompatible with the existence of the factories, 

 ought to be no element in the question of keeping our 

 border waters pure and sweet. 



The upper waters of the Esks, however, above the 

 mills, have still abundance of trout. The sources of 

 South Esk are in the Moorfoot Hills ; and Gladhouse- 

 water, Moorfoot-burn, and Borthwick-burn, have all 

 pools containing numbers of trout (not of large size), 

 and may be fished successfully after a flood. They are 

 all attainable from Gorebridge, Fushie-bridge, or Tyne- 

 head station. They lie high, however, and the trout 

 are late in getting into condition. We do not know 

 precisely at what point the protection of the Esk begins 

 — probably it is in the neighbourhood of Arniston. 



The North Esk comes from the Pentlands. The 

 true source of the stream is above Carlops, towards 

 which place it flows from the hills straight south, and 

 then bends suddenly to the north-east by Penicuick. 

 It is perhaps hardly worth while to begin fishing below 

 the Powder-mills, about two miles above Penicuick ; 

 but either in the Esk or in the Nine-mile Burn, above 

 that point, quantities of small trout may be taken, 

 especially in a flood. The only tributary of any note 

 received by the North Esk is Logan-house-water or 

 Glencorse-burn, which crosses the roads about six 

 miles from Edinburgh. In the neighbourhood of Glen- 

 corse it is probably preserved, and we remember to 



