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of Tweed, being about 39 miles long. A recent writer has 

 copied an error of a well-known angler's book of reference in 

 stating that the Teviot is 60 miles long. Sixty miles in the 

 same direction would be away across both the Esk and the 

 Annan. It rises, however, near the borders of Dumfriesshire. 

 The chief feeders are the Ale, Jed, Oxnam, and Kale. Numbers 

 of fish ascend the Teviot, and, in the autumn, the water bailiffs 

 are usually busy in this district, for the poaching fraternity 

 are numerous and over-bold. 



Hawick, Denholm, Ancrum, and Jedburgh, are towns in 

 Teviotdale or Tividale if one should adopt an ugly abbrevia- 

 tion. On the Teviot and the feeders named there are no fewer 

 than 32 weirs. In the case of not a few, fish can ascend 

 without much difficulty, and this in some cases in spite of the 

 fact that no passes exist. Some of the caulds are, however, 

 much more serious affairs, notably at the Bongate Mill cauld 

 at Jedburgh, and at Millheugh on the Oxnam. The latter is 

 formed of natural rock, and both are almost wholly obstructive 

 to the ascent of fish. \ 



Though several of the feeders are rocky the Rule Water 

 indeed which enters at Denholm means, I believe, the rumbling 

 sound the lower Teviot, owing no doubt to the prolonged 

 action of denudation, becomes quiet and rather sluggish, so 

 that attempts have ere now been made to increase the current 

 by concentration, and so, if possible, improve the fishing. 

 Early Tweed fish, if they are lucky, get up to Kelso, where their 

 progress is checked by the cauld. The quiet Teviot then offers 

 itself as a further channel. Hence it follows that not a few 

 fish are sometimes caught in lower Teviot in the months of 

 March and April. Bull-trout, by which I mean the round 

 tail (S. trutta variety eriox), also ascend, but, as usual, are 

 little use to anyone. 



The Tweed after receiving the Teviot, is a river of such 

 proportions that boatwork becomes more or less necessary in 

 fishing. In following the river downwards from Kelso we have 

 now the most productive water in front of us. Leaving out 

 of count the bends of the river, the general direction is now 

 north-east to Berwick, about five-and- twenty miles. Hender- 

 syde or Sharpitlaw of Sir Richard Waldie Griffith, Bart., is on 

 the left, and Sprouston, of the Duke of Roxburghe, on the 



