26 FRESH- WATER TROUT. 



and the drainage of towns are conveyed into the 

 streams, and the result is that salmon are extinct, 

 and trout are fast going. Even in Scotland several 

 streams have suffered severely from these causes, 

 and they are daily increasing. The following 

 graphic, and we fear prophetic, foreshadowing of 

 the fate of Tweed, is taken from the " Quarterly 

 Keview" for January 1857, and is written by an 

 angler no less celebrated for wielding the rod than 

 the pen : 



" Look at what the Tweed is now in contrast 

 with what will be its look and smell at that not 

 distant then. See her and hers rolling along, beauti- 

 ful and beautifying, through regions where every 

 ruin is history, and every glen is song gathering 

 her tributes from a thousand hills from where 

 sweet Teviot sings, unceasingly, its * farewell to 

 Cheviot's mountains blue ; ' where pensive Yarrow 

 winds like a silver chain, amid ' the dowie dens ; ' 

 where, in the sad and silent ' Forest/ 



" 'The wildered Ettrick wanders by, 



Loud murmuring to the careless moon," 



till, grown stately, massive, and brimming, * Tweed's 

 fair river, broad and deep/ wheeling beneath the 

 donjon keep of Norham and the battlements of 

 Berwick, sinks into the ocean as glittering pure as 

 when she broke away from her native hills. Is all 

 this to vanish, and in its place a pestilential sewer? 

 Is that which spreads health and beauty around to 



