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| of manufactories and as it has in general a clean shining many- | ||||||
| coloured path of gravel it almost everywhere possesses a re- | ||||||
| markable limpid and sparkling appearance such as combined | ||||||
| with the majestic mirthfulness of its current and with the prevail- | ||||||
| ing brilliant beauty of its banks tend to suggest serenely joyous | ||||||
| images to a tasteful observer of landscape. The Tweed possesses | ||||||
| none of the wild romance, the bold and startling groups of picture | ||||||
| or the impressive and at times awful grandeur of such rivers as | ||||||
| the Garry the Tummel and the Upper Tay but in all the properties which gently | ||||||
| please soothingly fascinate lusciously excite it is surpassingly rich and not a | ||||||
| little various. Till it debouches into the Eden-like vale of Melrose it is agregably | ||||||
| a pastoral stream Yet has stretches of haugh and arable hanging plain which | ||||||
| look like little pictures within the rough bold framework of the surrounding hills | ||||||
| Its vale for a considerable distance from its commencement is prevailingly cold naked | ||||||
| and narrow but long before reaching Peebles and at intervals ever after it is occas- | ||||||
| ionally warmed and embellished with wood and presents charming alternatives | ||||||
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