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rest of its course it is almost all carefully preserved by 

 the different proprietors through whose land it flows, 

 Sir Hugh Campbell of Marchmount, Mr. S win ton of 

 Kimmerghame, Mr. D. M. Home of Wedderburn (who 

 even tries to preserve the Tweed at Milnegraden and 

 Paxton !) Mr. Buchan of Kelloe, Sir George Boswell of 

 Blackadder, and others. By some of these, however 

 chiefly by Professor Swinton, younger of Kimmerghame 

 leave is, we understand, pretty liberally given, and 

 a visitor at Dunse might probably find little difficulty 

 in obtaining permission to have a day's fishing in the 

 lower parts of the Blackadder, where the trout are even 

 bigger and better than in the upper waters. Geordie 

 Hamilton used to talk, more suo, about " trailin' them 

 oot wi' the mennon, twae punders and three punders." 

 We are not distinctly informed as to some small por- 

 tions of the water in which the angling is not restricted, 

 and hesitate to recommend anglers to go on chance to 

 a stream where the cordon of gamekeepers is scarcely 

 if at all broken. This protectionist system is quite of 

 recent date. 



From Allanton, where the Blackadder joins, the 

 Whitadder's course to the Tweed is about nine miles 

 in length. It receives no other tributary of any note, 

 not even a burn that is worth investigation. From 

 Allanton-bridge to Hutton-bridge, a distance of about 

 five miles, a day's fishing of the very best description 

 may be had. At the Bluestane-ford there is a stream 

 famous amongst the anglers of the district, and every 

 two or three miles there is a deep mill-dam where 

 large trout are bred, and which is a sort of reservoir 



