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of the water. These grounds, however, extend to 

 within a mile or so of the mouth of the Eye, and it 

 would not be worth any one's while to miss the pre- 

 served water in order to fish what is left, if indeed that 

 is not preserved also. This little Berwickshire river 

 enters the sea at the fishing- village of Eyemouth. 



At Grant's House, Eeston, and Ayton, all needful 

 accommodation may be obtained ; and these stations 

 are so conveniently situated, that there is just a quiet 

 day's fishing, between the morning and the evening 

 trains, from one to another. 



The Haddingtonshire Tyne is noted for the size and 

 quality of its trouts, for the strictness with which it is 

 preserved, and for a highly unsatisfactory decision in 

 law which has given a colouring of legality to the ex- 

 clusion of the public from angling in it. Its sources 

 are on the verge of the vale of Gala the Tyne and 

 its principal tributary, Cakemuir-water, rising close to 

 each other, although separating widely before they meet 

 again near Saltoun House. So rigidly is the exclusion 

 of the public enforced, that it is almost an aqua incog- 

 nita to modern anglers who do not possess the privilege 

 of acquaintanceship with any of the proprietors of its 

 banks. The Tynehead station, on the Edinburgh and 

 Hawick line, receives the angler near its source, and 

 we believe that for a few miles, while it is but a burn, 

 no restriction is attempted. At that part, however, it 

 is not of so much value as a trouting-stream, although 

 it has already acquired the peculiar character that dis- 

 tinguishes it throughout its course. There are, how- 

 ever, a good many trouts, and it is much frequented 



