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| River Tweed | River Tweed | Fullertons Gazetteer | The Tweed has its source in a paltry fountain called | |||
| of Scotland | "Tweed Well" a little above the farmhouse of | |||||
| Map of Berwick | Tweedshaws and at the foot of a hill | |||||
| Map of Roxburgh | named Tweed’s Cross on the southwest boun- | |||||
| Map of Scotland | dary of the Parish of Tweedsmuir Peebles- | |||||
| shire. The well is half a mile from Lanark | ||||||
| shire on the west the same distance from Dumfriesshire on the south and 1500 | ||||||
| feet above the level of the sea. From other sides of the hill where it springs up | ||||||
| proceed rills to the gathering or incipient volumes of the Clyde and the Annan Yet | ||||||
| not such as can with any justice be pronounced more than secondary head streams | ||||||
| of these rivers Over 22 miles from its source the Tweed runs prevailingly northeastward | ||||||
| and over the remaining 14 miles of the Peeblesshire part of its course in the direction | ||||||
| of east by south. During its connexion with Selkirkshire it continues as in the | ||||||
| later part of course in Peeblesshire to run prevailingly eastward till the last 9 or | ||||||
| 10 miles and over these it runs in the direction of North east by east. In a small | ||||||
| part of this run it divides Selkirkshire from Roxburghshire and in two places | ||||||
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