Fish and Fishing in the Lone Glens of Scotland
by Robert Knox
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217211581
Paperback|9780217211581
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART II. THE TWEED AND ITS TBIBUTARIES. The groves of sweet myrtles let foreign lands reckon, Where bright beaming summers exalt the perfume: Far dearer to me yon lone glen of Greenbrecken, With the burn stealing under the long yellow broom. INTBODUCTION. Scotland is essentially a mountainous and a hilly country. Wild and desolate mountain ranges, clothed with heath, but devoid of trees, occupy the greater part even of the south of Scotland. The sources of the Clyde, the Annan, and the Tweed, and of their tributaries, point out the more elevated parts of this region, extending from west to east, from Earleston's Hill to Cockburn's Path; a vast circuit of many miles, including the sources of Tweed's northern tributaries. On the south, Tweed, the prince of all angling rivers, drains the northern slopes of the Cheviots, receiving from these slopes many noble angling streams. I shall speak of those on the northern side first, and describe the tributaries before discoursing the angling qualities of the main stream itself, to which indeed I shall merely allude. At or near the embouchures of the smaller streams which feed it, each river may be said to have its own angling station; that is, the point from which it may be most conveniently fished; and in this respect many of the streams may be further subdivided into upper and lower waters, generally sufficiently distinct. These localities or head-quarters of the angler are, for the Gala, Torsonse and Noble House; for the Leader, the Inn of Soutra Leader and Leader Foot; for the Blackadder, Dunsc and Green- law; for the Whitadder (Upper Waters), The Cottage, six miles. from Dunse; Edron and Allan Bank or Chirnside are the stations whence may be most conveniently fished the lower waters of the same river. For Talla ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217211581 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217211585 |
| Weight | 0.37 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.25 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 104 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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