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River Tweed | River Tweed | Map of Northumberland | On sheets | The popular and the really remotest source | ||
Map of Berwickshire | 8.A.16 | of the Tweed is a healthy fountain called | ||||
Map of Roxburghshire | 9.9 | Tweed’s-well, a little above the farm house | ||||
9.10 | of Tweedsmuir, and at the foot of a hill | |||||
9.11 | called Tweed’s-cross on the south western | |||||
9.13 & | boundary of the parish of Tweedsmuir | |||||
9.15 | Peeblesshire 1500 feet above the level of | |||||
the sea. | ||||||
From its remotest sources to the sea at | ||||||
Berwick upon Tweed, it performs, irrespectively | ||||||
of windings, a run of about 100 miles & drains | ||||||
1870 square miles. | ||||||
There is no regular Navigation of the River Tweed above Berwick Bridge by vessels | ||||||
larger than Fishing Cobles. No Vessel of 50 tons burthen could get over South Bells | ||||||
Ford opposite West Ord House at any time. | ||||||
The ordinary Spring Tides flow to the west end of St Thomas’ Island, about | ||||||
half a mile above Horncliffe and about twice a year the Springs nearest the | ||||||
Equinoxes flow as high as Norham Castle | ||||||
W. Beatty |
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