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waters and sends them in two separate detachments to the Tweed and Clyde
Tradition says that in former times before Glasgow had acquired its common
character a project was conceived of turning the Clyde into the Tweed with the [?]
of rendering the latter navigable to a great distance along the Merse and in [?]
of such a project had it ever been attempted there existed the remarkable fact
that immediately south of Biggar a bog extends all the way between the rivers [?]
its waters flow to the Tweed and its surface is only a few feet above the level of
the Clyde and that abundance of materials are at hand for erecting a dam dyke
Of the 1500 feet of the of the Tweed's total agregate fall from its source to its embouchure 1000 [?]
achieved when it reaches the town of Peebles. In the very long run between that town and
the sea therefore the river might be expected to become sluggish in current and over a con-
siderable distance nnavigable. But it accomplishes its remaining fall of 500 feet in so many
so far apart and so comparitively gentle descents as to be altogether a stream of beauty and a
stranger to matters of commerce. It abounds in deep pools and in long stretches of scarcely
perceptible current yet in almost every sweep of it which can come under the eye in
the course of its beautiful bends sinuosities it presents one or more soft rapids
sometimes of considerable length where the surface of the water is carried along.

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The final word of several rows is obscured, and indicated by [?] in the transcription.

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DANIALSAN, Alan White

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