218 TRIBUTARIES OF THE TWEED. 



is best after a flood, and that with fly or minnow ; 

 but when small and clear it is not good for worm- 

 fishing in this district. From below Nisbet until it 

 joins the Tweed, however, it is all that could be de- 

 sired by an angler streams plentiful and good 

 trouts ditto. About Ormiston it is preserved, and 

 also opposite Mounteviot, near Jedburgh, and for 

 about a mile at Chesters, opposite Lanton. 



TRIBUTARIES OF THE TEVIOT. 



ALL OF WHICH ARE FREE. 



ALLAN a large burn which comes in four miles 

 above Hawick. Fishing middling. 



BOETHWICK, two miles above Hawick. Fishing 

 fair. 



SLITKIG enters at Hawick. Lots of trout, and 

 good fishing, but often spoiled by netters. 



RULE enters four miles above Jedburgh. Trout 

 very plentiful but small on lower portion ; not so 

 plentiful, but of heavier dimensions in upper portion. 

 Fishing easy. It divides into fine trouting burns 

 near its head. The Editor has killed upwards of 

 twelve dozen in the Rule in a day. This was on 

 the lower portion of the river. 



ALE Younger's " native valley" a small but 



