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The majestic and richly jewelled river rolls 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 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 in 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 unwise
increase in the number of boats employed in fishing have all been assigned

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