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hill, where admirable accommodation is afforded by the 

 Collingwood Arms inn. From this point the angler 

 can command the Till, and its tributary the Bowmont 

 and Glen, in addition to the Tweed. The Bowmont 

 is a beautiful water, which takes its rise in Koxburgh- 

 shire, and, passing through the double-village of Yet- 

 holm, the ^historical home of the border-gypsies, skirts 

 the Cheviots, and joins the Till near Ford, close by the 

 base of the small hill of Flodden, where the Flowers 

 o' the Forest were so fatally wede away by Surrey and 

 his host of Englishmen. About four miles above its 

 junction with the Till, however, near Copeland Castle, 

 the Bowmont receives the College-burn from the Che- 

 viots, and becomes the Glen. The nearest point of 

 the Bowmont from Cornhill is at Mindrum Mill, about 

 four miles off, and here, as elsewhere, the water abounds 

 with trout, although when we last visited it we got a 

 hint that the Yetholm gypsies too frequently made a 

 raid down it with pout-nets. The trout are very fine, 

 as well as plentiful. Above Yetholm (where there is 

 an excellent inn) the trout are smaller than below 

 that point although, on a clear day, the angler 

 may see hundreds in every little pool or shallow stream. 

 Yetholm is seven miles from the Kelso railway station. 

 The College is probably one of the most populous 

 streams in the kingdom, although its inhabitants are 

 tiny; and the Glen, formed by the union of these two, 

 is a celebrated trout-stream. In the neighbourhood 

 of Copeland Castle it is strictly preserved, but other- 

 wise these waters are free. Not so the Till, the public 

 right to fish in which is constantly interrupted. Tn 

 its upper parts it is called, we think, the Breamish, 



