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| of gorge glen and variously fashioned houghs Its screens or flanking | ||||||
| heights except at large openings where large tributaries bring lateral glens | ||||||
| are so closely pressed behind by lowering elevations and so huddled to- | ||||||
| gether in their ridgy extensions as to command no extensive views Yet by | ||||||
| their green soft surfaces and their finely curved outlines in combination[s] | ||||||
| with the woods on their skirts and the cultivation in the haughs which | ||||||
| they enclose they give in compensation many agreeable close pictures. | ||||||
| While it traverses the plain of Melrose it is overshadowed by orchards and | ||||||
| broadly sheltered from the margin with the most ornately cultivated plain and picturesq- | ||||||
| ely screened in the brief distance by the Eildons and Cowdenknows and diversified | ||||||
| sylvan heights as to seem like a river luxuriating in beauty. From this vale to near | ||||||
| the point where it leaves Roxburghshire it has seldom on its banks any considerable ex- | ||||||
| pansion of haugh but is in general shut in by hanging plains and soft rising grounds | ||||||
| all green arable or woods allowing very limited views of its channel but cutting into a | ||||||
| series of delightful scenes and commanding brilliant stretches of dale landscape from | ||||||
| the Eildon hills to the Cheviots. But at Kelso and a little above where | ||||||
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