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referred to, and the matter is too severely 

 condensed. I have proved the value of 

 their advice, and with pleasure I add my 

 own testimony to that of the triumvirate 

 aforesaid. 



No two waters are quite similar in 

 character. 



One flows through a hilly country and 

 is quite easy to wade, because it has a 

 hard bottom of gravel and sand. Another 

 flows sluggishly through a rich agricultural 

 country, and has a muddy, or, perchance, a 

 clay bottom. 



Here runs a water embowered amidst 

 bushes and trees ; and there flows a water 

 almost destitute of trees, as it passes 

 through some purely pastoral and hilly 

 district. It is surely evident that the local 

 expert, is the angler who ought to be most 

 at home on his own familiar well-wooded 

 stream or streams. For instance, take that 

 beautiful tributary of the Teviot, the Jed, 

 as an example. The local fisher, accus- 

 tomed to much of Gala water where he 

 has what we call, a clear cast (an un- 

 hampered throw), would be rather puzzled 

 when fishing some of the well- wooded parts 

 of the Jed, especially in windy weather, 

 say about Ferniehurst, when the trees are 



