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| waters and sends them away in two separate detachments to the Tweed and Clyde | ||||||
| Tradition says that in former times before Glasgow had acquired its common | ||||||
| character a project was conceived of turning the Clyde into the Tweed with the v[iew] | ||||||
| of rendering the latter navigable to a great distance along the Merse and in [fa?] | ||||||
| of such a project had it ever been attempted there existed the remarkable fa[ct] | ||||||
| that immediately south of Biggar a bog extends all the way between the rivers [?] | ||||||
| its waters flow to the Tweed and its surface is only a few feet above the level [of] | ||||||
| the Clyde and that abundance of materials are at hand for erecting a dam dyke | ||||||
| Of the 1500 feet of the Tweed’s total agregate fall from its source to it’s embouchure 1000 [is] | ||||||
| achieved when it reaches the town of Peebles. In the very long run between that town a[nd] | ||||||
| the sea therefore the river might be expected to become sluggish in current and over a [con-] | ||||||
| siderable distance navigable. But it accomplishes its remaining fall of 500 feet in so [???] | ||||||
| so far apart and so comparatively gentle descents as to be altogether a stream of beauty and a | ||||||
| stranger to matters of commerce It abounds in deep pools and in long stretches of scarcely | ||||||
| perceptible current yet in almost every sweep of it which can come under the eye in | ||||||
| the course of its beautiful bends sinuosities it presents and as more soft rapids | ||||||
| sometimes of considerable length where the surface of the water is carried along | ||||||
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