2 THE BORDER ANGLER. 



residence subjects them. Perhaps no city in the island 

 is so excellently situated in this respect, or so fully 

 provided with these facilities, as EDINBURGH. Indeed, 

 considering the number and the variety of streams 

 which are every morning at the command of the in- 

 habitant of "the grey Metropolis of the North/ 7 it is 

 doubtful if he is not as well stationed in Edinburgh as 

 he could be if he were to choose for himself a dwelling- 

 place on the very margin even of his favourite stream. 

 In a period varying from one to three hours, the Edin- 

 burgh man of business can be whirled to the banks of 

 the Clyde, the Forth, the Teith, or the Tay ; another 

 hour or so will place him on Loch-Lomond in time to 

 have a cast and be back to his abode at night ; he 

 may even start from Waverley Bridge in the morning, 

 and by the afternoon have his line wet in Highland 

 Dee. And, more valuable and convenient than all these 

 together, he can breakfast quietly at seven o'clock, and 

 by nine or ten be busy at his sport in almost any of 

 those delightful streams which make the south-eastern 

 counties of Scotland his land of hope and promise. 



Never surely can Eailways and Kivers run more 

 lovingly together than the NORTH BRITISH and its 

 Branches, and the TWEED and its branches. From the 

 moment you surmount the acclivity in which the GALA 

 rises, until you arrive at one of the various termini 

 Selkirk, or Hawick, or Jedburgh, or Berwick you 

 scarcely lose sight of some stream or other, famous in 

 Border Song, and high in angling repute. There you 

 go down the vale of Gala, with that river of " braw, 

 braw lads" twisting and twining round the iron road, 

 making many a pleasant and coquettish bend, but 



