ANGLING. 



ers," which run up to cast their spawn on gravelly 

 places. Of the three more regular haunts of trouts 

 we have already alluded to the two extremes, the 

 clear and rocky, the suffused and muddy. It now 

 remains to shew those grounds on which the inter- 

 mediate class may justly claim precedence, and 

 here we shall also follow the footsteps of the skilful 

 and observant T. T. S. 



" The Tweed," observes our ingenious Scottish 

 Angler, " comparing it with the other Scottish 

 rivers, is by no means rapid. The Dee, the Spey, 

 the Lochie, and many parts of the Tay and Clyde, 

 proceed with greater swiftness, and, on the whole, 

 are infinitely more broken and interrupted. Of all 

 rivers, this quality belongs solely to it, namely, that 

 it is from head to foot beautifully proportioned and 

 justly meted out. There is an evenness and impar- 

 tiality about it which distinguish no other stream, 

 its pools and shallows are harmoniously arranged. 



" It murmurs and pauses, and murmurs again. 

 Here we perceive no rocky shelves, no impertinent 

 cataracts, saying to ascending fish, " hitherto shalt 

 thou come, and no farther; and here shall thy 

 proud fins be stayed. 11 Nothing of the kind. Nor 

 is there, on the other hand, any inert tendency ; 

 no long, dead, sleeping levels, in which pike may 

 secure themselves. The whole is planned according 

 to an angler's taste, every inch of water accessible 

 to the wader, without danger or interruption. Its 

 banks, also, are in keeping with its other advan- 

 tages, not naked and barren, neither spongy and 

 overgrown with rushes, nor yet crowded with close 



