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| the majestic and richly jewelled river falls past the termination of | ||||||
| the broad grey path of the almost rival Teviot coming down to | ||||||
| pay its princely tribute a scene of blushing and brilliant beauty | ||||||
| expands around it on which the imagination lives as if it were a rem- | ||||||
| iniscence of paradise. | ||||||
| From Roxburgh or rather from Kelso to the sea the Tweed is | ||||||
| magnificent and imposing stream and uniformly maintains its character- | ||||||
| istic transparency and winds in constant bend and tortuosity along its | ||||||
| career and in a general view moves on a gigantic furrow – a lowland glen | ||||||
| exuberantly clothed with wood and spreading away in a terrace broad as | ||||||
| the Merse and delicately featured with all the properties of a great and highly | ||||||
| cultivated plain | ||||||
| The salmon fisheries of the Tweed were formerly of great value but of | ||||||
| late years have suffered a great depreciation. The protrusion of the pier of Ber- | ||||||
| wick the general use of lime in the fields drained into the river and an undue | ||||||
| increase in the number of boats employed in fishing have all been assigned | ||||||
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