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character, and has often brought to our recollection 

 the lines of the poet Thompson : 



" And here awhile the muse, 

 High hovering o'er the broad cerulean scene, 

 Sees CALEDONIA in romantic view ; 

 Her airy mountains, from the waving main 

 Invested with a keen diffusive sky, 

 Breathing the soul acute ; her forests huge, 

 Incult, robust, and tall, by nature's hand 

 Planted of old ; her azure lakes between, 

 Pour'd out extensive, and of wat'ry wealth 

 Full ; winding deep and green, her fertile vales ; 

 With many a cool, translucent, brimming flood 

 "Wasli'd lovely, from the Tweed (pure parent stream) 

 To where the north-inflated tempest foams 

 O'er Orca's or Betubium's highest peak." 



Peebles is a fine angling station on the Tweed. 

 The river presents in every locality the finest ranges 

 of angling water. The small tributary called the 

 Eddleston runs into it at this town. This feeder 

 abounds with small trout ; and after a fresh in sum- 

 mer the angler may fill his basket with them in a 

 few hours. We once tried the red-worm in its 

 waters, when very low, and in the brightest weather, 

 and took about six dozen out of it during the after- 

 ternoon. But few of them were more than a quar- 

 ter of a pound in weight. 



There is much to interest the lover of fine scenery, 

 and the antiquary, about the town of Peebles, and 

 the banks of the Tweed, above and below it. The 

 most conspicuous object is Neidpath Castle, which 

 is one among many of the strong castles erected in 



