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and October, they generally bring up to that stretch 

 of water lying betwixt Holy-lee and Caddon-foot a fair 

 sprinkling of grilses. The flies used there are mostly 

 sombre in hue. Hooks dressed in the Irish style, are 

 not found nearly so killing. The fishings belong prin- 

 cipally to Lord Elibank, Mitchell Innes, Esq., of Stow, 

 Sir James Russel of Ashiestiel, and J. Pringle, Esq., 

 of Torwoodlee. At Cloven-ford on the Caddon-water, 

 about half a mile distant from Tweed, there is an ex- 

 cellent inn, much resorted to by anglers. On the hill 

 above, lies a small lake or pond stocked with trout. 

 After receiving the Caddon-water, the river takes an 

 abrupt bend, and passing below the bridge at Yair, is 

 joined, two miles further down by the ETTRICK. This 

 stream has its rise on the borders of Dumfries-shire 

 and occupies a course of about thirty miles. Its prin- 

 cipal tributaries are the Timah, Rankle-burn, and Yar- 

 row. Ettrick abounds in nice trout, weighing on the 

 average a quarter of a pound, but I have killed them 

 occasionally, below Thirlestane, upwards of a pound, 

 and recollect seeing one taken there nearly three times 

 that weight. From the burns which empty themselves 

 in the upper districts, I have known my friend John 

 Wilson, Esq., Jun., of Elleray, to capture with the 

 worm twelve dozen, in the course of a forenoon. Sea- 

 trout, both of the whitling and bull species, ascend the 

 Ettrick in November, sometimes in great numbers. 

 As many as three score have been slaughtered, by 

 means of the leister, in one night out of a single pool. 

 The true salmon killed on an occasion of this sort are 

 comparatively few. 



YARROW enters' Ettrick, a short way above Selkirk, 

 It proceeds from St. Mary's loch, the upper part of 

 which is situated nineteen miles from the town referred 



