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must refer our readers to the article " Streams " of 

 which he was proud which contains a panegyric on 

 the Crook, and has been republished in his Miscella- 

 nies.) All the streams which we have yet named flow 

 from the south, and are above the Crook; and by their 

 united contributions the Tweed at that place becomes 

 a most pleasant and convenient angling stream. 

 Abounding in trout, with fine alternations of stream 

 and pool, the angler may command every inch of it 

 without wading. As the Tweed is accessible to the 

 salmon to its very source, the shoals of parr that exist 

 in all these streams indicate that the salar and eriox 

 pay their winter visits to the hills, and do their part 

 in the great economy of nature in multiplication and 

 the replenishing of the waters. , Few of the sea-fish, 

 however, ever get back, for the shepherds of Tweeds- 

 rnuir are sad poachers, and the sight of a salmon 

 within reach of the leister is what no Scotchman can 

 well resist. 



So having spent the half of his holiday- week at the 

 Crook, let the angler next fish quietly down to Eachan 

 Mill, looking up Kingledoor's-burn on his left hand 

 for a mile, just to see it, on his way, and passing by 

 Stanhope-burn on the other side, which is preserved 

 (! !) by Sir Graham Montgomery, and is therefore so 

 much fished as not to be worth attention. The angler 

 will see other rivulets on his way down Glenriska, 

 Harestane, and Polmood ; but they are only for ex- 

 ceptional occasions, such as heavy floods, when larger 

 streams are unfishable, or for the month of August, 

 when trout, in all but small burns, where their hunger 

 is chronic, seem palled, and trying like overfed alder- 



