DO TWEED. 



have not only beautiful scenery but good fish- 

 ing, and it rejoiceth me to say, that you may fish 

 the whole river, from Berwick to Tweedsmuir, 

 for trout, without being challenged by any one. 

 The salmon alone are the protected denizens of 

 the river, each salmon fishing being rented at 

 high rates, and each having its keeper. The 

 right to the salmon, by late decisions of the 

 Sheriff, not giving the exclusive right to trout 

 also. Long may this privilege continue for the 

 recreation, the health, and the enjoyment of 

 those in towns and cities pent, and those also who 

 dwell on Tweed's bonnie banks ! The trout are 

 large here, and you may sometimes take two and 

 three pounders. If you kill a grilse, it must be 

 given up, or you can buy it at the market price, 

 from the taxsman. If the day be fine, you may 

 be sure to fill your basket before you get to St 

 Boswell's Green, where you can either stay or 

 get on to Melrose. It would be absurd to say 

 much of a place so well known and so often de- 

 scribed. I shall never forget, while visiting this 

 beautiful old ruin, my friend Mill's recitation of 

 " those Evening Bells " in the Church-yard it 

 had just struck se^en. There is good fishingwater 

 to this, and up to Abbotsford, and, if time is not 



