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River Tweed -- River Tweed -- Continued.

In two great head waters, one of which bears the name of Tweed, while
the other is throughout called the Lyne, it rises respectively in the Southwest and
Northwest extremities of Peeblesshire; by the head streams of the Ettrick, the
Yarrow, and the Teviot it drains Selkirkshire from the furthest west; by the
Gala, the Leader, the Whitadder and other streams it draws off the waters
from the southern acclivities of the Moorfoot and Lammermoor hills, even
from a line but 11 or 12 miles south of Edinburgh; and from its remotest source
to its influx into the sea at Berwick-Upon-Tweed it performs irrespectively of
its windings a run of about 100 Miles, about one third of which is in Peebles-shire
and about another third, through or in contact with Roxburghshire.
The Tweed and Clyde, for many miles from their sources flow so nearly in one direction, as never
to diverge to any great distance from each other, and so long as they continue nearly parallel
they flow upon almost the same level and keep on a high table-land of country as if hesitating
whether to unite their waters or remain separate, or whether to turn their final course toward
the eastern or western ocean. In the vicinity of Biggar, where the Clyde is 7 Miles from the Tweed
and 30 from its own source, and flows through a country by no means mountainous, the
indigenous waters descend from within half a mile of it to the Tweed; and 10 or 11 miles lower
down running in an opposite direction to that long pursued by the two great streams, splits
its waters and sends them away in two separate detachments to the Tweed and Clyde. _
Tradition says that in former times before Glasgow had acquire its commercial character
a project was conceived of turning the Clyde into the Tweed with the view of rendering the latter
navigable to a great distance along the Merse and in favor of such project had it ever
been