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with just sufficient speed to feature it all over with dimples and ripple
and glassy sides and whirls. The banks of gravel or shingle
which from these rapids and in one instance 2 or 3 miles above Kelso
a perforated broad weak dyke quite across its channel render-
it naturally unfit and artificially unimproveable for navigation.
Yet ferry boats are stationed upon it in many localities and have
ample depth of water and small flat boats used in salmon
fishing &c and provincially called "trows" are freely navigated over
the ford - A few miles from its embouchure too it loses its pre-
vailing character and becomes capable of admitting small sailing crafts. The tide
flows up to Norham Castle 10 miles above Berwick and up to Waterfords (New)
6 miles above Berwick it has sufficient depth at any time for a vessel of
30 tons burden. The real navigation of the Tweed however is all confined to Ber-
wick but as to either capaciousness or depth of sea-room and harbourage
afforded to it, might be quite as well accommadated in many a tiny bog or nameless
creek in the ruggedly indented parts of the coast of Scotland - As the Tweed
thus undisturbed by traffic is nearly as much untintured by the liquid outpourings