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of manufactories and as it has in general a clean shining many-
coloured path of gravel it almost every where possesses a re-
markable 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 views as
the Garry the Tummel and the Upper Tay but in all the properties which gently
please soothingly fascinate lusciously excite it is surpassingly rich and not a
little various. Till it debouches into the Eden-like vale of Melrose it is agregably
a pastoral stream Yet has stretches of haugh and arable hanging plain which
look like little pictures within the rough bold framework 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 occas-
ionally warmed and embellished with wood and presents charming alternatives