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river mouth, analogous to those of the Berwick Salmon Fisheries 

 Company, voluntarily subscribe to the funds of the Association 

 who have carried out the negotiations, and who lease the nets 

 for the purpose of removal. The success of the operations is 

 undoubted. No one in the Upper Dee would now dream of 

 again putting in a net. There is no reason to suppose that a 

 similar and gradual action in Tweed would bring about any 

 dissimilar result. Fishings which are now valuable in autumn 

 would become valuable also in spring, and the proposals already 

 on foot for the purification of the river, which I have already 

 referred to, would go hand in hand with the increase of Tweed 

 salmon. 



