and gentlemanly sportsman will experience but little 

 interruption from obstructions of this description. 

 Indeed, it may almost be said, that nuisances of this 

 nature are entirely unknown in Scotland. On this 

 account, all the movements of the wanderer are free 

 and unfettered. The sport of angling is so univer- 

 sally indulged in, that there is not a town or village 

 in the whole country, situated near a river or stream 

 of any kind, in which you will not meet with 

 anglers of first-rate pretensions ; men, too, who are 

 far above any mean feeling of petty jealousy at your 

 intrusion into their accustomed haunts, or your par- 

 ticipation in their favourite amusement. In fact, 

 despicable and unworthy feelings or sentiments of 

 this kind can never be encouraged or even generated 

 in a country where every mere boy can go out and 

 fill his creel with the finest trout in a few hours, 

 and perhaps bring home half-a-dozen prime and 

 delicious salmon, or salmon trout, into the bargain. 



But free and unrestrained as the angler's personal 

 movements are in this country, compared with Eng- 

 land, they are not more so than the movements of 

 his tackle. Here there are scarcely any impedi- 

 ments to the full and free use of the fly, arising 

 from trees, or bushes, or underwood of any kind. 

 The country is remarkably open ; and the rushing 

 and impetuous waters of the fresh streams, scoop 

 out for themselves such broad and capacious beds, 

 that ample room is afforded for the full swing of the 

 very longest line which a man can use with a rod. 

 You may, in many cases, ramble down the banks of 



