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greatest weight. The Ellemford fishing-club is under 

 the control of a council and secretary, Alexander Low, 

 Esq., to whose enthusiasm and judicious management 

 it owes much of its prosperity. 



The best stations for anglers on the Whitadder and 

 Blackadder rivers are Longformacus Inn, at the junc- 

 tion of the Dye and Watch ; Ellemford Inn, six miles 

 from Dunse, and Allanton, at the junction of the Whit- 

 adder and Blackadder. 



With regard to the salmon-fishings of Tweed, I have 

 been favoured with the following communication from a 

 gentleman in Berwick, who has every facility for ac- 

 quiring correct information on the subject. In reply to 

 the inquiries made by me, he observes : tf As regards 

 the rent of the salmon-fishings on the Tweed, I cannot 

 state exactly what it is from Norham downwards ; but 

 the assessment from Eden-mouth, a little below Kelso, 

 down to the sea, and including the sea-side fisheries 

 four miles north and five miles south from the river, was, 

 last year, (1846) made upon a rental of 5358Z. 2s. 

 The average number of boxes of salmon shipped in ice 

 (containing each about ten stones) has been for the last 

 ten years 4610. The local consumption of salmon, &c. ; 

 I can hardly estimate ; but it is chiefly in the months of 

 July, August, and September, when it is cheapest ; and 

 I should think it can scarcely be called less than two or 

 three hundred boxes in the season. During the last 

 twenty years, there have been, and always will be, a great 

 difference in the quantities of fish taken, when compared 

 one year with another, as there are seldom two seasons 

 alike ; sometimes there are more salmon and fewer 

 grilses, and vice versd. Trouts also vary very much in 

 number and weight ; and, in consequence, it is almost 

 impossible to state generally as to the increase or falling 



