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the upper part of the Et trick, he must take up his 

 quarters at Tushilaw Inn, where there is admirable 

 accommodation, provided, in great measure, for the 

 convenience of anglers. There is a good road up the 

 whole vale of Ettrick from Selkirk ; and there is also 

 a road from Hawick to Tushilaw, the distance being 

 about fifteen miles. 



The Ettrick, for the first few miles of its course, 

 receives but insignificant accessions, the burns that 

 pour in from the hills being short in their courses and 

 small in volume. Its first important tributary is the 

 Timah, which is almost its equal in size, and enters it 

 a mile below Ettrick Kirk. " Moorland Rankleburn " 

 enters about a mile above Tushilaw, and just opposite 

 to the ruins of the old Tower of Tushilaw, a strong 

 fortress of a branch of the Scotts, the last of whom, 

 Adam Scott, commonly called King of the Borders, 

 was hanged on an old tree which we believe still 

 stands in the court-yard by James V. in one of his 

 celebrated expeditions against the lawless chiefs of 

 the borders who refused to remain at peace or to re- 

 cognise his authority. The fishing in all these waters 

 is excellent, the trout in the upper part of the Ettrick, 

 and in Timah and Kankleburn, being very numerous, 

 although of a small average size. We have heard that 

 the Hawick netters make raids to the Ettrick, but can 

 hardly think that they can be frequent ones, or can 

 materially aifect the fishing. The waters here, how- 

 ever, are late indeed we may say that both Ettrick 

 and Yarrow are altogether later than the majority of 

 the border streams. The best fly-fishing is to be had 

 in May; and about the middle of that month, during a 



