PART II. 



THE TWEED AND ITS TEIBUTAKIES. 



The groves of sweet myrtles let foreign lands reckon, 

 Where bright beaming summers exalt the perfume : 

 Far dearer to me yon lone glen of G-reenbrecken, 

 With the burn stealing under the long yellow broom." 



INTRODUCTION. 



SCOTLAND is essentially a mountainous and a hilly country. 

 Wild and desolate mountain ranges, clothed with heath, but 

 devoid of trees, occupy the greater part even of the south of 

 Scotland. The sources of the Clyde, the Annan, and the Tweed, 

 and of their tributaries, point out the more elevated parts of this 

 region, extending from west to east, from Earleston's Hill to 

 Cockb urn's Path ; a vast circuit of many miles, including the 

 sources of Tweed's northern tributaries. On the south, Tweed, 

 the prince of all angling rivers, drains the northern slopes of 

 the Cheviots, receiving from these slopes many noble angling 

 streams. 



I shall speak of those on the northern side first, and describe 

 the tributaries before discoursing the angling qualities of the 

 main stream itself, to which indeed I shall merely allude. At or 

 near the embouchures of the smaller streams which feed it y 

 each river may be said to have its own angling station ; that 

 is, the point from which it may be most conveniently fished ; 

 and in this respect many of the streams may be further subdi- 

 vided into upper and lower waters, generally sufficiently distinct. 

 These localities or head-quarters of the angler are, for the Gala, 

 Torsonse and Noble House ; for the Leader, the Inn of Soutra 

 Leader and Leader Foot ; for the Blackadder, Dunse and Green- 

 law ; for the Whitadder (Upper Waters), The Cottage, six miles. 



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