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landscape. A more enjoyable wind-up to your day’s 
sport you cannot have. On Tweedside, which is 
crowded with.scenic attractions, I know of no spot 
that so powerfully commends itself to the eye, and is 
more adapted by its associations to invite to soothing 
reverie. 
The charms which belong to this view-point are 
no doubt greatly enhanced in the angler’s estimation 
by the character of the river. The curve or bend 
here taken by the Border-stream embraces a series of 
rocky pools and gravelly stretches, which in their 
harmonious combination present themselves at once 
to his mind as the cherished lurking-places both of 
salmon and river-trout ; not that they excel in this 
respect the ranges of water in their immediate neigh- 
bourhood, but forming as they do a prominent 
feature in the picture, they add to the interest of it 
in the eye of a certain class of onlookers, and really 
deepen and make more imposing the general effect. 
Since the communication by railway was estab- 
lished betwixt Kelso and St. Boswells—a station on 
the North British line situated at about a mile’s dis- 
tance from the Abbey—I have taken opportunities, 
two or three at least every season, to pay a visit, rod 
in hand, to the bend in question and the portions of 
the river adjoining it. Sometimes, for variety’s sake, 
I alight at Maxton Station, three miles further down, 
and fish up towards Dryburgh. In that case, I 
