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burn, which joins the river at the bend above Carham, 

 the Tweed becomes the boundary between the two 

 kingdoms, in place of the " ideal line" which stretches 

 from this point to the Liddel. The Tweed continues 

 to mark the u march" between England and Scotland 

 until about three miles from its mouth, the final ab- 

 sorption of Berwick-upon-Tweed and its liberties by 

 England having diverted the line of division from 

 being thus continued to the sea. The Wark fishings 

 and the Lees fishings, belonging respectively to Lord 

 Tankerville and Sir John Marjoribanks, intervene be- 

 tween Carham and Coldstream, which latter town 

 affords the most suitable position from which to fish 

 the lower part of the Tweed. 



Coldstream is a border town of about 2000 inha- 

 bitants, with Lees House on the one side, and the 

 Hirsel, the modern seat of the Earls of Home, on the 

 other. The late Earl of Home was a noted salmon- 

 angler, and in the neighbourhood of Coldstream most 

 of his triumphs were effected. He is stated to 

 have killed with his rod here a salmon fifty pounds 

 in weight. Few salmon of this weight have ever 

 been caught in the Tweed, the largest of late years 

 having been a little more than forty pounds ; but from 

 the largeness of some of the kelts occasionally taken 

 which are little more than the skeletons of salmon 

 it is evident that, amongst the " grey schule" 

 which enter the river to spawn in January, fish of 

 gigantic proportions visit the Tweed. In 1857 Lord 

 Polwarth killed a kelt of thirty-seven pounds at Mer- 

 toun, and one of thirty-eight pounds was captured by 

 net at Horncliffe ; both of which fish, before being 



