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| River Till Continued | generally North West direction | |||||
| for about 2 miles, where it receives | ||||||
| the water of the <u>River Glen</u>, which | ||||||
| river is formed by the united streams | ||||||
| of the "<u>Bowmont Water</u>" and the "<u>Colledge Burn</u>". From this point | ||||||
| it continues in the same general direction past Forde, Etal, | ||||||
| and enters Norham Parish near <u>New Etal</u> and empties itself | ||||||
| <u>NOTE | into the Tweed about a mile west of Twizell Castle | |||||
| Ordinary Spring Tides flow | 11 miles (by road) above Berwick upon Tweed. | |||||
| as far as the west end of | It is a rather sluggish slow running stream | |||||
| St Thomas’s Island and about | in may parts deep and dangerous, but presents | |||||
| twice a year the springs nearest the | a great many places favourable to the Angler. | |||||
| Equinoxes – the Extraordinary Spring | ||||||
| Tides flow as high as Norham Castle. | R Burnaby | |||||
| There is no regular Navigation on the | Major RE | |||||
| River above Berwick Bridge by vessels larger | 31 Jany 1860 | |||||
| than a fishing coble. No vessel of 50 tons burthen | ||||||
| could get over South Bells Ford opposite Westford House at any time. | ||||||
| William Beatty Civil Assistant | ||||||
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