24 THE PRACTICAL ANGLER 



settled for ever, labours under no such hallucination 

 as our friend the " Advertiser." That manufactories, 

 however, do injure the fishing, all England proves ; 

 there, the refuse from them and the drainage of 

 towns are conveyed into the streams, and the result 

 is that salmon are extinct, and trout are fast going. 

 Even in Scotland several streams have suffered 

 severely from these causes, and they are daily in- 

 creasing. The following graphic, and we fear pro- 

 phetic, foreshadowing of the fate of the Tweed, is 

 taken from the " Quarterly Review " for January 

 1857, and is written by an angler no less celebrated 

 for wielding the rod than the pen : 



"Look at what the Tweed is now in contrast 

 with what will be its look and smell at that not 

 distant then. See her and hers rolling along, beau- 

 tiful and beautifying, through regions where every 

 ruin is history, and every glen is song gathering 

 her tributes from a thousand hills from where sweet 

 Teviot sings, unceasingly, its ' farewell to Cheviot's 

 mountains blue ; ' where pensive Yarrow winds like 

 a silver chain, amid ' the dowie dens ;' where, in the 

 sad and silent ' Forest,' 



1 The wildered Ettrick wanders by, 

 Loud murmuring to the careless moon,' 



till, grown stately, massive, and brimming, ' Tweed's 

 fair river, broad and deep,' wheeling beneath the 

 donjon keep of Norham and the battlements of 

 Berwick, sinks into the ocean as glittering pure as 

 when she broke away from her native hills. Is all 



