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take larger trouts at Driffield, and from 

 streams more secluded bring home a heavier 

 creel; but for a week's fair fishing, from 

 Linnshiels to Warkworth, the Coquet is 

 perhaps surpassed by none. The natural 

 scenery of its banks is beautiful, independent 

 of the interest excited by the ruins of Brink- 

 burn Priory, and the Hermitage of Wark- 

 worth ; and its waters, " clear as diamond 

 spark," present in their course every variety 

 of smooth water, rapids, and pools, for the 

 exercise of the angler's skill. 



Last year I took my usual route, intend- 

 ing to spend a day or two in Coquetdale, 

 accompanied by a friend, an amateur, both 

 fishing and of sketching, but more expert 

 at taking a view than taking a trout. We 

 were approaching the village where we in- 

 tended to stop, when my companion's atten- 

 tion was arrested by a striking object, and 

 immediately his sketch book was out. "Pull 

 up a few minutes, Oliver," said he ; " look 

 at that gibbet did you ever see any thing 



