THE FLOORS CASTS. 33] 



His grace is a most enthusiastic and efficient salmon- 

 fisher, and the feats he has frequently achieved are un- 

 surpassed by those of any living angler, in Great Britain. 

 It is a matter of not uncommon occurrence for him to 

 kill with the rod betwixt twenty and thirty fish, salmon 

 and grilses, in the course of the day, on the Floors 

 stretch of water alone. He has recently much improved 

 the fishing capabilities of this range of Tweed, both by 

 constructing dykes, in order to form pools, and by ad- 

 ding large stones to the channel of the river, so as to 

 induce the salmon to remain within the precincts of the 

 estate. The casts on the Floors water are as follows, 

 the Slates, Blackstane, Weetles, Huddles, Shot, recently 

 improved and formed into a sort of cauld or dam, 

 Hedge-end, Shirt-stream, Skelly rock, Coach Wynd, 

 Income, Cobby-hole, Putt, Back Bullers, Maxwheel. 

 Immediately below the Back Bullers, the junction of 

 Tweed and Teviot, unquestionably a meeting of waters, 

 unsurpassed by any in the United Kingdom, takes place. 

 His grace's fishings in this quarter are under the super- 

 intendance of Mr. Stevenson, who has liberty to con- 

 struct cairns in certain places, for the purpose of netting 

 salmon, and who takes charge of the angling boats, &c. 



Immediately below Kelso, commence the Sprouston 

 fishings, rented, along with the ferry, a couple of miles 

 down the river, by Thomas Kerss, a relative of Old 

 Rob's at Trows, for about seventy pounds per annum. 

 These, in connection with the salmon casts belonging to 

 John Waldie, Esq., of Hendersyde Park, embrace the 

 following streams and pools, Hempside Ford, the Bank, 

 the Grain, Winter Cast, Mill-stream, Mill-pot, Butter- 

 wash, Bushes, Scurry, containing the well known Pri- 

 son-rock, Dub, Mill-end, Falls, Eden-water-foot. Mr. 

 Waldie's fishings begin at the Mill-stream and termi- 



