THE VALE OF GALA. 25 



or high, minnow, partail, worm or creeper, may 

 be used. I shall begin with the two first of 

 these baits ; but, in the first place, I must say 

 something of the capital of this district, now 

 the Leeds, I may say, of Scotland ; as I have 

 promised not only to discourse of fish and their 

 various lures, but to add to your knowledge in a 

 kind of ( etchings by the way,' here a little and 

 there a little. But I will begin first at Inver- 

 leithen, and then come down to the flourishing 

 town of Galashiels. 



Jnbtrlntjjen or Jnturlnifun. 



Sweet be thy name in my remembrance. 

 'Twas here that I spent many happy days alas, 

 never more to return, still I give thanks for all 

 I have had and enjoyed in this place Its 

 pastoral valleys by the Leithen ; the banks of 

 the Tweed, its classic ground ; the l Bonny 

 Bush Aboon Traquair,' of which you see the 

 remains on the opposite side, reminding you of 

 that beautiful song of Allan Ramsay, and its 

 plaintive air, adapted by Boildieu, in his intro- 

 duction or overture to his opera of l La Dame 



