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this, the Island Stream, the Knout Seg, followed 

 by the Steel pool, all of which are good for trout 

 and salmon. Then comes the famous pool of 

 Gleddis Wiel, where Laidlaw, Hogg, and Sir 

 Walter, used to Hester salmon, and which is so 

 well and graphically described by Lockhart in 

 his Life of Scott, and also in the Border Angler, 

 page 67, that I must pass it. This sport in 

 Tweed must now, in the words of Pope, only 

 ' Live in description and look green in song ; ' 

 for, by the new law of the Duke of Roxburghe, 

 it is prohibited; but, as an old fisher, I have 

 been a partaker of its excitement and also of 

 its sport ; for, by the old law, it was allowed so to 

 do by night or day ; and I well remember 

 when my jolly friend Bryson came out on a 

 geological excursion to the Quarry, being ac- 

 companied by him to Clapperton's Haugh, and 

 on throwing a noble shaft at a fish, I was nearly 

 swept away in the flood, having struck it in too 

 deep and rapid water ; and, on recovering myself, 

 saw a fine salmon of 25 'to 30 Ibs. walloping 

 at the end of my liester down stream. It was 

 found next morning by one of the hinds, and a 

 good prize it was. In summer I have seen 

 great sport here with the liester, when the river 



