152 THE SCOTTISH ANGLER. 



ROXBURGHSHIRE. 



Tweed waters this county, receiving the Leader op- 

 posite Melrose, the Teviot at Kelso, and still farther 

 clown the Edon. Teviot, the leading stream, has many 

 tributaries ; of these the principal are the Borthwick, 

 Slitrig, Rule Water, Ail, Jed, Oxnam, and Kail. The 

 character of their channels is generally alike, and they 

 all contain numbers of trout ; few of which, however, 

 exceed a pound or two in weight, although salmon 

 and sea trout are to be caught during the late autumn 

 floods, and in spring, of a size sufficient to give con- 

 siderable play to the angler. Teviot itself is much ha- 

 rassed by poachers from Hawick and its neighbourhood, 

 who use close time as the season of their depredations, 

 and employ for apparatus, leisters, lime, and nets, 

 without ceremony ; hence, no fish of size, except such 

 as ascend from Tweed, are to be found in this river. 

 In Roxburghshire, good accommodation for the angler 

 will be found at Melrose and Kelso, on the Tweed ; 

 also at St Boswell's, Jedburgh, and Hawick, along with 

 the smaller villages scattered up and down the shire. 



AYRSHIRE. 



The angler will find in Ayrshire a few excellent 

 trouting waters. The leading ones are the Rye Wa- 

 ter, Lugton, and Caaf, falling into the Garnock ; the 

 Irvine increased by the Kilmarnock, Carmel, and An- 

 noch Waters ; the Water of Ayr, a very clear stream, 

 abounding in trout ; the Doon, from Loch Doon, con- 

 taining salmon, red and white trout, and char ; the 

 Girvan and the Strichen, into the last of which fall 

 the Asshill, Duck, and Feoch Burns. A number of 

 small lochs are situated in Ayrshire, among which may 

 be mentioned, Lochs Doon, Finlass, Bredenholm, 

 Cornist, and Balloching. Loch Doon contains a very 



