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the finest character possible for angling, 

 where a fisherman of my acquaintance has 

 hooked 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 Sundays 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 con- 

 tained taking-fish after every flood in the 



