PAKT I. 



SOUTH AND SOUTH EASTEBN DIVISION, 



COMPREHENDING THE COUNTIES OF BERWICKSHIRE, PEEBLESHIRE, ROX- 

 BURGHSHIRE, SELKIRKSHIRE, HADDINGTONSIIIRE, EDINBURGHSHIRE, 

 LlNLITI-IGOWSHIIRE, AND LANARKSHIRE. 



15 K 11 W I C K S H I R E. 



THE RIVER TWEED. 



" I've seen the smiling primrose flower 



Among the "braes of Yarrow ; 

 I've felt the cutting winds of March 



Among the hills of Barra : 

 I've wander'd Scotland o'er and o'er, 



From Beauty to the Reed, 

 But the bonniest spot to throw a line, 



Is the bonny bonny Tweed." 



THE Tweed is, beyond all question, the finest river 

 in Scotland for either trout or salmon ; nay, we may 

 almost venture to add that, take it as a whole, there 

 is no river like it in all Europe. The angler can 

 fish it with the fly perfectly unmolested, from its 

 source to its mouth. During the first thirty miles 

 of its course, scarcely a bush or a tree is to be seen ; 

 nothing but the limpid stream winding its murmur- 

 ing way among the hills of considerable elevation, 

 in many cases rounded as in a lathe, and covered 



