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and which, at that advanced season of the year, formed, 

 unless induced to leave it by some exciting bait like the 

 one then employed by me, their natural haunt. 



Another instance, of later date, which I shall men- 

 tion, occurred at Teviot-foot, not very far distant from 

 the scene of action already spoken of, on the 16th of 

 October, 1844. The water, on this occasion, was only 

 slightly swollen, and far from that state which is gene- 

 rally held in estimation by roe-anglers; nor, indeed, 

 was the paste used by me of the best quality, being 

 fabricated, not from the roe of the salmon, but that of 

 the bull-trout, and in consequence very inferior, both 

 as respected colour and flavour. I commenced angling 

 precisely at eight o'clock, A.M., and left off, my bait 

 being wholly exhausted, at ten minutes before one, the 

 whole period of time occupied by me extending to 

 nearly five hours. The number of trout captured was 

 in all two hundred and twelve, several of them weighing 

 a pound and a-half. I hooked and played also two 

 bull-trout, or large whitlings, but owing to the under- 

 size of my hooks, or some other cause, they made their 

 escape. As on the former occasion, the fish, when I 

 was compelled for want of bait to abandon the sport, 

 were still in feeding humour, more eager indeed, and 

 ravenous than during any other portion of the fore- 

 noon. The spot I occupied, on the above-mentioned 

 day, lies at a distance of three hundred yards from 

 the junction of the Teviot with Tweed, and as the 

 varieties of the common or parr-trout inhabiting the two 

 rivers are quite distinct, the one from the other, in 

 external appearance, I was at no loss to specify and 

 assort them. I came accordingly to the conclusion 

 that, at the fewest, two-thirds of the fish captured by 

 me belonged to Tweed, and that these, owing to the 



