326 TWEED AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. 



Cauldshiels, on the Abbotsford estate, containing pike 

 and perch. 



A little below Galashiels, is situated on the main 

 river, the Pavilion or Melrose water, extending from 

 the mouth of the Gala, as far as the bridge at Melrose 

 or thereabouts. The salmon fishings on this stretch of 

 Tweed belong to Lord Somerville, and are at present 



rented by Broadwood, Esq. The former lessee 



was his Grace the Duke of Buccleugh. Many of the 

 casts are excellent, and after a succession of autumnal 

 floods, abound in grilses. Upwards of three hundred 

 fish were killed here in a single night, during the open 

 season, by means of the leister, not many years ago 

 from one boat. These I may mention were all dun- 

 breeders and useless as food. 



Next to Lord Somerville's fishings follow those of 

 Thomas Tod, Esq., of Dry grange, which terminate at 

 the bridge near Leaderfoot. They were let recently 

 to one of the Purdies, well-known fishermen in that 

 district, and are held in good esteem by anglers. The 

 LEADER is an excellent trouting water, but the fish are 

 not large, few exceeding a jpound in weight. There 

 are several comfortable inns on its banks, one near the 

 head, at Carfrae-mill, another at Lauder, and a third at 

 the beautiful village of Earlston. 



Below Leader- bridge the salmon fishings on Tweed, 

 as far down as Dryburgh, are connected with different 

 properties on the bank of the river. Gladswood, Old 

 Melrose, Bemersyde each asserts its claim to a sepa- 

 rate stretch of water, and under these are the Dry- 

 burgh fishings and those belonging to Charles Biddell, 

 Esq. ; also a disputed cast or two, to which Sir William 

 Fairfax and his Grace the Duke of Roxburghe form the 

 claimants. Tn all these stretches of water, which taken 





