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| In two great head waters one of which bears the name of Tweed while | ||||||
| the other is throughout called Lyne it rises respectively in the Southwest and | ||||||
| Northwest extremities of Peeblesshire by the head streams of the Ettrick the | ||||||
| Yarrow and the Teviot, it drains Selkirkshire from the furthest west by the | ||||||
| Gala the Leader the Whiteadder and other streams it drains off the waters from the | ||||||
| southern acclivities of the Moorfoot and Lammermoor hills even from a line | ||||||
| but 11 or 12 miles south of Edinburgh and from its remotest source to its influx | ||||||
| into the sea at Berwick upon Tweed it performs irrespectively of its windings a | ||||||
| run of about 100 miles about one third of which is Peeblesshire and about another third | ||||||
| through or in contact with Roxburghshire. | ||||||
| The Tweed and Clyde for many miles from their sources flow so nearly in one direction as | ||||||
| never to diverge to any great distance from each other, and so long they continue nearly parallel | ||||||
| they flow upon almost the same level and keep a high table-land of country as if hesitating | ||||||
| whether to unite their waters or remain separate or whether to turn their final course toward the | ||||||
| eastern or western ocean. In the vicinity of Biggar where the Clyde is 7 miles from the Tweed | ||||||
| and 30 from its own sourse and flows through a country by no means mountainous the indigenous | ||||||
| waters descend from within half a mile of it to the Tweed and 10 or 11 miles lower down running | ||||||
| in an opposite direction to that long pursued by the two great streams splits its waters | ||||||
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