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who, among other devices, caused to be erected in the 
way of ornamentation to the Dryburgh estate a 
huge ungainly statue in honour of the Scottish hero 
Wallace, and a dome or temple dedicated to and 
graced by the figures of the muses ; not an unclassical 
work of art by any means, but sadly out of place, 
and in consequence reduced to a ruinous condition, 
_ partly through want of means on the part of the 
possessor, and also—I feel pained to add—of pro- 
priety on the part of visitors. The bridge, which is 
contiguous in its way to these curiosities, has not 
been used as such for forty or fifty years, and the. 
skeleton portion which remains had better be removed 
altogether than left as it is, to call forth queries and 
emotions of a painful nature. Immediately under 
this dissolving structure, some years ago, I hooked, 
played, and after a severe run of nearly half-an-hour, 
landed a fish of 19 Ibs. weight. Above the Bridge 
Stream occurs a salmon-cast, known by the designa- 
tion Munsey. I recollect educing from under the 
shadow of an ash-tree, on the north bank of the 
river, by virtue of the snipe-wing, an immense kelt 
from this piece of water; and out of its superintend- 
ing flow, which is really magnificent -salmon-ground, 
I have, once and again, taken fish of great mettle. 
The highest salmon-stream on the Dryburgh water, 
and perhaps on the whole one of the most likely for 
a clean fish to take up quarters in, is termed the 
