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| River Tweed | River Tweed | Map of Northumberland | on sheets | The popular and the really remotest | ||
| River Tweed | Map of Roxburghshire | 3.8 | source of the Tweed, is a paltry | |||
| River Tweed | Map of Berwickshire | 3.11 | Fountain called Tweeds well a | |||
| 3.12 | little above the farnhouse of | |||||
| 3.16 | Tweedshaws, and at the foot | |||||
| 4.5 & | of a hill named Tweeds Cross on | |||||
| 4.9 | the south western boundary | |||||
| of the parish of Tweedsmuir | ||||||
| Peebleshire. The well is 1500 feet | ||||||
| above the level of the sea | ||||||
| From its remotest source, to the sea at Berwick upon Tweed, it performs | ||||||
| irrespectively of windings, a run of about 100 miles and drains 1870 | ||||||
| square miles | ||||||
| The Tweed is not navigable above Berwick Bridge by vessels | ||||||
| longer than a fishing coble. The ordinary spring tides flow as | ||||||
| high as the west end of St Thomas's Island, and about twice | ||||||
| a year, the springs nearest the equinoxes flow as high as | ||||||
| Norham Castle. | ||||||
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