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Parish of Hutton

River Tweed (Continued)
From Roxburghshire, or rather from Kelso to the sea the Tweed is a mag-
nificent and imposing stream and uniformly maintains its characteristic transparency and winds
in constant bend and tortuosity along its carreer and in a general view moves in a
gigantic furrow a lowland glen exuberantly clothed with wood and spreading
away in a terrace broad as the Merse and delicately featured with all the properties
of a great and highly cultivated plain.
The salmon fisheries of the Tweed were formerly of great value but of late years have
suffered a great depreciation. The protrusion of the pier of Berwick, the general use of
lime in the fields drained into the river, and an undue increase in the number of
boats employed in fishing, have all been assigned as causes and severally pro-
nounced by competent judges to be either irrelevant or so feeble as to correspond
in no considerable degree to the effect. The real cause or at least the prime and most
powerful one, appears to be the illegal destruction of fish during the close season in
the higher Tweed and its tributaries But the Tweed always has and will bear
the character of being one of the best trouting rivers in Scotland.