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Lej'den sang ; but now the stream is \ery much 

 tainted indeed below Hawick, like Tweed in too 

 man\- places. Thus, for a dozen reasons, trout are 

 nigh as rare as red deer. Clearburn alone remains 

 full of unsophisticated fishes, and I have the less 

 hesitation in revealing this, because I do not ex- 

 pect the wanderer who ma}- read this page to be 

 at all more successful than m\-self Xo doubt 

 they are sometimes to be had, b}' the basketful, 

 but not often, nor by him who thinks t\\'ice 

 before risking his life by smothering in a peaty 

 bottom. 



To reach Clearburn Loch, if you start from the 

 Teviot, \-ou must pass through much of Scott's 

 countr}- and most of Leyden's. I am credibl_\- in- 

 formed that persons of culture ha^■e forgotten John 

 Leyden. He was a linguist and a poet, and the 

 friend of \^'alter Scott, and knew 



The mind whose fearless frankness naught could move, 

 The friendship, like an elder brother's love. 



\\'e remember what distant and what deadl)- shore 

 has Le\-den's cold remains, and people who do not 

 know ma}- not care to be reminded. 



