12 GLENCORSE. 



I am told, if you fished there now, you would 

 be gazed at, all the trout having been destroy- 

 ed by lime, and other deleterious matter, long 

 since. 1 



I remember an old ash tree at Dryden, near 

 Roslin, which my father felled, and for which 

 he gave L.37, 15s., some goodly sticks or stycks 

 in Scotland, though Dr Johnson saw none. 



I went once in 1817, with my lamented and 

 dear friend George Brunton, who afterwards 

 became editor of the Patriot newspaper in Edin- 



1 The Duke of Buccleuch is reported to have said, at a 

 meeting of Commissioners of Supply of Water at Edin- 

 burgh in 1858, speaking of preserving the rivers pure, 

 ' That Hawick, Selkirk, and Galashiels, under the pres- 

 sure of the Tweed Commissioners, had made arrangements 

 by which the water was so filtered, that the poisonous 

 ingredients were prevented getting into the river.' This 

 is a dream of his Grace. I never saw such : there is no 

 such thing. At Galashiels and Selkirk, no doubt, such 

 a thing ought to be done, and has been long talked about. 

 A company a few years ago tried this on the Don ; but 

 failed to make it pay. 



