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may be fished for in spring as in the case of Teviot mouth. The 

 sluggish nature of the stream is in strong contrast to the swinging 

 force of Tweed at the junction. 



"Tweed said to Till, 

 What gars ye rin sae still ? 

 Till said to Tweed, 

 Though ye rin wi' speed, 

 And I rin slaw, 

 Yet where ye drown ae man 

 I drown twa ! " 



There are four weirs in Till, the first at Twizel being of little moment. 

 At Heaton Mill, which is not now worked, there is a heavy rush of 

 water from a bye-wash which has formed a basin below the weir, 

 and fish find difficulty in ascending the rush. At Etal, which is 

 about six miles and a half up the river, there is a still more obstruc- 

 tive weir. It is reported that few salmon are taken in the upper 

 Till because of this weir. Sea-trout seem to find less difficulty in 

 ascending, and penetrate to the river Glen and the Bowmont and 

 College waters above, which drain the eastern slopes of the Cheviots. 

 From Wooler to the mouth of Till is about 17 miles. The entire 

 length of Till is about 30 miles. 



Below Till mouth the two Bendibus fishings are passed before old 

 Norham Castle is reached. This picturesque and massive old pile 

 was founded as early as 1121, and seems originally to have been 

 attached to the See of Durham. It played a conspicuous part in 

 most of the frays and battles of this region, but although James IV. 

 of Scotland used it, the battle of Flodden was independent of it. 

 At a survey of the castle nine years after Flodden, in 1522, the 

 inner keep was considered quite impregnable. The great square 

 tower rises 70 feet, and the view as one looks down the river, over 

 masses of trees, from the Scottish side, is peculiarly striking. 



Three miles and a half by the river below Norham, at Horncliffe, 

 is the Union Bridge, a suspension bridge constructed by a Captain 

 Samuel Brown, RN. This bridge practically marks the top of tide 

 reach in Tweed, and has before now been spoken of as the point at 

 which netting might end. I will have occasion to refer to it again, 

 when dealing with the future of the salmon fisheries. 



The netting stations are now very numerous, as the map will show, 

 for the value is considerable. Rather more than half way to the 

 mouth, the Whitadder tributary enters on the left side. It rises 

 away in East Lothian on the slopes of the Lammermoors and has a 



