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with the loveliest verdure to their very summits. 

 To an eye long familiarised to the soft and rich, but 

 comparatively tame scenery of merry England, a 

 ramble along the banks of the Tweed, in this section 

 of its course, will afford a novel and truly delightful 

 treat. Fine rippling rushing streams, as clear and 

 transparent as the purest crystal, will attract the 

 enraptured angler every fifty or sixty yards on his 

 route ; whilst the broad channelled bed of the river, 

 free from bush or twig, or impediment of any kind, 

 will afford him every possible facility for casting his 

 line, and landing his fish. If there be a single 

 breath of wind moving about these romantic hills, it 

 soon frisks upon the surface of the glassy waters, so 

 that, even in the brightest weather, the industrious 

 angler can scarcely be disappointed of his sport. 

 The supply of fish seems to be inexhaustible, for from 

 1 6 to 20 dozen of trout, with a goodly sprinkling of 

 salmon, are no uncommon results of a single day's 

 work by an expert and persevering sportsman. 



Another great advantage which the Tweed pos- 

 sesses, as a fishing river, to the general mass of 

 anglers, arises from the circumstance, that all her 

 tributary streams afford an almost endless succession 

 of splendid sport. They are all supplied in rich 

 abundance with trout and salmon ; and as they flow 

 from many opposite directions, they afford to the 

 inhabitants of widely separated sections of the king- 

 dom, the opportunity of enjoying the most delightful 

 amusement in all parts of their waters. But, good 

 as these tributary streams unquestionably are, as 



