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increased by several small tributaries or feeders, namely, 

 Lyn Burn, Red Burn, Wascrop Burn, the Shittlehope, 

 the Stanlwpe, Horsley Burn, the Westhope, the 

 Swinhope, the Middlehope, and the BooJchope. There 

 is good angling with the worm in all these waters, but 

 the fish run small. The main river is always to be 

 preferred, except the angler enjoys a ramble up the 

 smaller waters for the sake of their wild and romantic 

 scenery. All kinds of flies are used here, and with 

 success. The minnow, after rain, does great execution, 

 particularly in the summer season. Though the country 

 is wild, and a good part of it entirely moorland, yet the 

 tourist finds plenty of places for refreshments and 

 lodging. The habits of the people in this part are 

 simple and hospitable, and most cheerfully do all they 

 can to minister to the comforts of their guests. 



The Tees and the Wear are of ready access from 

 London, or, indeed, from any section of the kiagdom, 

 by railway conveyance. An angler leaving the 

 metropolis in the morning can be upon the banks of 

 either of the rivers in the evening. There are other 

 smaller rivulets and streams in the county of Durham, 

 but they are not worth any formal enumeration. 



Two or three streams in Northumberland are of first- 

 rate angling note. The Coquet, the North Tyne, the 

 Aln, and the Till are places much frequented by rod- 

 fishing tourists at particular seasons of the year. They 

 are all accessible by railway communication. The 

 Coquet is the most celebrated, and has for more than a 

 century been a stream enjoying aristocratic and fashion- 

 able notoriety as an angling locality. In former years, 

 before the fashion ran so strongly for distant Scottish 

 rivers, the Coquet used to be the annual rendezvous of 

 all our London literary, scientific, and political rbd- 

 fishers ; and even now there are more anglers on its 

 streams, and more fish taken out of them, including the 

 salmon-trout, than in any other half a dozen of chief 

 rivers in the northern counties of England. 



The river springs out of the south-western range of 

 the Cheviot Mountains, and has a range of nearly forty 



