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of the river) indulge the fifliermen with a fortnight 

 pad that time, on account of the change of the 

 ftyle. 



There are on the river forty-one confiderable 

 fiiheries extending upwards, about fourteen miles 

 from the mouth (the others above being of no 

 great value) which are rented for near 5400/. per 

 annum. The expence attending the fervants wageSj 

 nets, boats, &c. amount to 5000/. more, which 

 together makes up the fum 10400/. Now in con- 

 fequence the produce muft defray all, and no lefs 

 than twenty times that fum of fiih will effed; it, fo 

 that 208000 falmon muft be caught there one year 

 with another. 



There is a misfortune attending the river 'Tweedy 

 which is worthy a parlementary remedy \ for there 

 is no law for preferving the fifh in it during the 

 fence months, as there is in the cafe of many 

 other Britijh rivers. This being the boundary be- 

 tween the two kingdoms, part of it belongs to the 

 city of Berwicky and the whole north fide ( begin =■ 

 ning about two miles from the tov^n) is entirely 

 Scotch property. From fome difagreement between 

 the parties they will not unite for the pfefervation 

 of the filh, fo that in fome fifheries on the north 

 fide they continue killing ialmoa die whole win- 

 ter, when the death of one lifn is the deftrudion of 

 thoufands *. 



* I think that this grievance is now removed. 



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