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Parish of Hutton

River Tweed
A few miles from its embouchure, too it loses its prevailing character and becomes
capable of admitting small sailing craft The tide flows up to Norham Castle
10 Miles above Berwick; and up to Newwaterford 6 miles above Berwick it
has sufficient depth at any time for a vessel of 30 tons burthen. The real navigation
of the Tweed however is all confined to Berwick; but as to either capaciousness or depth
of sea-room and harbourage afforded to it, might be quite as well accommodated
in many a tiny bay or nameless creek in the ruggedly indented parts of the coast
of Scotland. As the Tweed while thus undisturbed by traffic is nearly as much
untinctured by the liquid outpourings of manufactories, and as it has in general
a clean shining many-coloured path of gravel, it almost every where possesses a re-
markably limpid and sparkling appearance - such as combined with
the majestic mirthfulness of its current and with the prevailing brilliant beauty
of its banks, tend to suggest serenely joyous images to a tasteful observer of landscape.
The Tweed possesses none of the wild romance, the bold and startling groups of
picture, or the impressive and at times awful grandeur of such rivers as the
Garry, the Tummel, and the Upper Tay, but in all the properties which gently
please, soothingly fascinate, and lusciously excite it is surpassingly rich and
not a little various. Till it debouches into the Eden-like vale of Melrose, it
is aggregately a pastoral stream; yet has stretches of haugh and arable hanging
plain, which look like little pictures within the rough, bold frame-work of the
surrounding hills. Its vale for a considerable distance from its commencement is prevailingly Cold
naked and narrow, but long before reaching Peebles and at intervals ever after it is
occasionally