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insects upon which trout feed is materially lessened, 

 and at the same time the number and size of trout, 

 which, as has just been stated, depends in a great 

 measure upon the quantity of food. If drainage, 

 for which there is no remedy, has such an injurious 

 effect, there is the more necessity for looking after 

 the causes which might be stopped ; and the worst 

 of these are the manufactories, bleachfields, etc., 

 which are so thickly studded along the banks of 

 our southern streams, and which send their dyes 

 and other deleterious refuse straight into the 

 streams, causing sad havoc. When we mentioned 

 this in our first edition, the " Border Advertiser " 

 came down upon us as having fallen into "the 

 vulgar or rather urban error, that manufactories 

 injured the fishing." It would be worse than 

 useless to argue the point with a man living upon 

 the banks of Gala Water. If Gala Water from 

 Galashiels to Tweed, which, to use the words of 

 Mr. Stoddart, "is an unseemly ditch, full of the 

 blackest and most noxious dyes," and which the 

 " Border Advertiser " must see and smell daily, 

 will not convince him, no argument will. Why, 

 the "Man of Ross," who has propounded the 

 rather startling theory that grilse are not young 

 salmon, and whose theory " Blackwood's Magazine " 

 has settled for ever, labours under no such halluci- 

 nation as our friend the "Advertiser." That 

 manufactories, however, do injure the fishing, all 

 England proves ; there, the refuse from them 



