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thirty fish in a morning. The river was then 

 perfect, and it might easily be brought again 

 into the same state; but even as it is now, 

 with this single good pool and this second 

 tolerable one, I know no place where I 

 could, in the summer months, be so secure 

 of sport as here certainly no where in 

 Great Britain. 



POIET. I have often heard the Tay and 

 the Tweed vaunted as salmon rivers. 



HAL. They were good salmon rivers, and 

 are still very good, as far as the profit of the 

 proprietor is concerned ; but, for angling, they 

 are very much deteriorated. The net fishing, 

 which is constantly going on, except on Sun- 

 days and in close time, suffers very few fish 

 to escape; and a Sunday's flood offers the 

 sole chance of a good day's sport, and this 

 only in particular parts of these rivers. I 

 remember the Tweed and the Tay in a far 

 better state. The Tweed, in the late Lord 

 Somerville's time, always contained taking- 

 fish after every flood in the summer. In the 

 Tay, only ten years ago, at Mickleure, I was 

 myself one of two anglers who took eight fine 



