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| divides Roxburghshire from Berwickshire. After leaving Roxburghshire | ||||||
| the Tweed is but partly a Scottish river it divides Berwickshire | ||||||
| from England till within 4 1/2 miles of the sea and then bids adieu to Scotland | ||||||
| & runs between England & the Liberties of Berwick. Its course for 4 or 5 miles | ||||||
| after leaving Roxburghshire is eastward then changes to north east by | ||||||
| north and again to the eastward for about 5 miles to its embouchure into | ||||||
| the German Ocean. The Tweed directly or by its tributaries draws nearly | ||||||
| the whole area of the central and eastern Border Counties of Scotland and of the detached | ||||||
| districts of Durham and the north corner of Northumberland in England. It usually | ||||||
| ranks in importance as the fourth of the Scottish rivers, the Tay, the Forth & | ||||||
| the Clyde being respectively | ||||||
| pronounced the first second & third. But estimates according to the extent of country | ||||||
| ‘which it drains it far surpasses | ||||||
| every Scottish river except the Tay for while the Spey which this rule places next | ||||||
| to it drains only 1300 square | ||||||
| miles and the Clyde which is next to the Spey drains only 1200. | ||||||
| The Tweed drains 1870. The Scottish coun- | ||||||
| ties with which it has connection are Peebles Selkirk Roxburgh Berwick and the southern divi[-] | ||||||
| sion of Edinburgh and excepting a tiny next of Peebles drained by the head waters of the Mid | ||||||
| Lothian Esks, the parish of Castletown and some very small pendicles of Roxburgh- | ||||||
| shire and the northeast division or about a fourth of Berwickshire these coun- | ||||||
| ties are entirely within its basin | ||||||
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