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River Tweed -- River Tweed -- Continued -

till within 4 1/2 miles of the sea and then bids
adieu to Scotland and runs between England and
the Liberties of Berwick. Its course for 4 or 5 miles
after leaving Roxburghshire is eastward then changes
to North East by North and again to the eastward
for about 5 miles to its embouchure into the
German Ocean -
The Tweed directly or by its tributaries, drains
nearly the whole area of the central and eastern Border Counties of Scotland and
of the detached districts of Durham and the north corner of Northumberland in
England. It usually ranks in importance as the fourth of the Scottish rivers, the Tay,
the Forth and the Clyde being respectively pronounced the first second and
third. But estimated according to the extent of country which it drains, it far surpasses
every Scottish river except the Tay; for while the Spey which this rule places next to it, drains only
1300 square miles and the Clyde which is next to the Spey drains only 1200, the Tweed drains
1870. The Scottish counties with which it has connection are Peebles. Selkirk, Roxburgh
Berwick and the southern division of Edinburgh; and excepting a tiny nook of Peebles drain
-ed by the head waters of the Mid Lothian Esks, the parish of Castletown, and some very small
pendicles of Roxburghshire, and the northeast division or about a fourth of Berwickshire
these counties are entirely within its basin