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| with just sufficient speed to feature it all over with dimples and rip- | ||||||
| ples and glassy sides and whirls. The banks of gravel or shingle | ||||||
| which from these rapids and in one instance 2 or 3 miles above Kelso | ||||||
| a perforated broad weak dyke quite across its channel render | ||||||
| it naturally unfit and artificially unimproveable for navigation | ||||||
| Yet ferry boats are stationed upon it in many localities and have | ||||||
| ample depth of water and small flat boats used in salmon | ||||||
| fishing &c and provincially called "trows" are freely navigated over | ||||||
| the ford. A few miles from its embouchure too it loses its pre- | ||||||
| vailing character and becomes capable of admitting small sailing crafts. The tide | ||||||
| flows up to Norham Castle 10 miles above Berwick and up to Waterfords (New) | ||||||
| 6 miles above Berwick it has sufficient depth at any time for a vessel of | ||||||
| 30 tons burden. The real navigation of the Tweed however is all confined to Ber[-] | ||||||
| wick but as to either capaciousness or depth of sea-room or harbourage | ||||||
| afforded to it might be quite as well accommodated in many a tiny bay or nameless | ||||||
| creek in the ruggedly indented parts of the coast of Scotland. As to the Tweed | ||||||
| thus undisturbed by traffic is nearly as much untintured by the liquid outpourings | ||||||
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