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sportsman may place himself on the banks of the stream by a five 

 minutes' walk. It is very prolific of trout, of a better size and 

 quality than the Coquet fish, but the salmon-trout are scarce. 



The river Till is approached by way of Berwick. The railway 

 from that place to Kelso crosses the Till. It is a slow and knguid 

 running stream, very deep in certain localities, ^but contains very; 

 rich and fine trout, with a small sprinkling of pike, though not of 

 large size. Till is not a good fiy-river, but is admirable for trolling. 

 It runs into the Tweed, and is well stocked from this splendid 

 reservoir. There is an old rhyme, among the people in the neigh- 

 bourhood, in reference to the comparative swiftness of the two 



"Tweed said to Till, 

 ' What gars ye rin sae still ?' 

 Till said to Tweed, 

 ' Though ve rin wi' speed, 



And I rin slaw, 

 Yet where ye drown ae man, 



I drown twa.' " 



In the rivers Reed, Wansleclc, and Blyth, all rivers of Northum- 

 berland, there are fine trout, but they can only be properly angled 

 for by persons who have a very accurate knowledge of the peculi- 

 arities of each stream. Tor general tourists they are not well 

 fitted. 



We come now to enumerate at some length another batch of 

 rivers and lakes, all full of interest, and abounding with fish of all 

 kinds namely, the rivers and lakes of Cumberland, Westmoreland, 

 and Lancashire. Here, an angling ^ traveller can have a ramble 

 among rivers of all sizes, and in sections of the country diversified 

 by every kind of landscape. We know no place in England where 

 a man of any mind at all can be more highly gratified, with a fishing- 

 rod in his hand, than in a tour embracing the entire waters in these 

 several counties ; and the best way of really enjoying the sports of 

 the angle, after getting to the locality by railway, is to walk from 

 river to river and from lake to lake. A great part of the country 

 is wild astonishingly wild and lonely but full of grandeur and 

 picturesque beauty; and there are now plenty of places where 

 refreshments can be readily obtained, and every civility met with. 



Supposing the angler leaves London by the London and North 

 Western, at Euston-square, for Lancashire, he will be there in a 

 few hours, and the next day may enter upon his amusement. Part 

 of the rivers in this county are rendered unfit for general piscatory 

 movements, by reason of the manufactures established upon their 

 banks. The Liine, which springs from the high and mountainous 

 parts of Westmoreland, and enters the sea below Lancaster, is a 

 good stream, both for salmon and trout. The best districts on the 

 liver are those which lie between Kirby Lonsdale and Hornby, 



