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piscatory tourist. Some of these spots, bearing names, 

 are great favourites' with some anglers, while by 

 others they are but lightly esteemed But the real 

 truth is, that they are all excellent excellent in the 

 highest sense of the word. They are not to be 

 equalled by any similar extent of water in the king- 

 dom. From Kelso to the mouth of the Eden, a dis- 

 tance of three miles, there is a succession of the finest 

 streams and pools of water that an angler's eye can 

 behold. 



He should, if possible, make a point of throwing 

 a line into this small but interesting feeder of the 

 Tweed. The most suitable spot for a short excur- 

 sion to the Eden is at Ednam, distant about two 

 miles from the main river, and famous for being the 

 birth-place of the poet Thomson, the author of " The 

 Seasons, " to whose memory a column has been 

 recently erected. The angler of literary taste can- 

 not but feel a great degree of pleasure at visiting 

 a spot hallowed by the memory of such a brilliant 

 genius. The poet left this village in childhood, but 

 he was ever afterwards remarkably attached to the 

 banks of the Eden ; and it was probably from his 

 early associations with this stream that he penned 

 his well-known lines on the art of angling : 



" When, with his lively ray, the potent sun 

 Has pierc'd the streams, and rous'd the finny race, 

 Then, issuing cheerful to thy sport repair : 

 Chief should the western breezes curling play, 

 And light o'er aether hear the shadowy clouds. 

 High to their fount, this day, amid the hills 



