70 SALMON FISHING IN THE TWEED 



gentleman to whom I feel much indebted for some 

 very liberal and scientific communications ; nor 

 must they omit to look into the pages of a most 

 highly entertaining and clever work lately published, 

 called " The Rod and the Gun." 



I shall only add, that in allusion to the con- 

 sequence attributed to these beautiful fish in the 

 Tweed, and in consideration of the favourable 

 places for spawning in the upper parts of the river, 

 the Royal Burgh of Peebles wears for arms, — vert, 

 three salmon counter naiant in pale argent, with 

 the motto, " Contra nando incrementum." 



In the arms of the city of Glasgow, and in those 

 of the ancient see, a salmon with a ring in its 

 mouth is said to record a miracle of St. Kentigern, 

 the founder of the see, and the first Bishop of 

 Glasgow. 



" They report," says Spotswood, " of St. Kenti- 

 gern, that a lady of good place in the country, 

 having lost her ring as she crossed the river Clyde, 

 and her husband waxing jealous, as if she had 

 bestowed the same on one of her lovers, she did 

 mean herself unto Kentigern, entreating his help 

 for the safety of her honour ; and that he going to 

 the river after he had used his devotion, willed one 

 who was making to fish to bring the first fish he 

 caught, which was done. In the mouth of this fish 

 he found the ring, and, sending it to the lady, she 

 was thereby freed of her husband's suspicion." 



The classical tale of Polycrates, says the very 

 clever author of " The Heraldry of Fish," related by 

 Herodotus a thousand years before the time of St. 

 Kentigern, is, perhaps, the earliest version of the 



