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Parish of Hutton

River Tweed
occasionally warmed and embellished with wood and presents charming alter
nations of gorge, glen and variously fashioned haughs. Its screens or flanking heights
except at large openings where large tributaries bring lateral glens are so closely
pressed behind by ?tamering elevations , and so huddled together in their ridgy exten-
sions as to command no extensive views. yet by their green soft surfaces, and their
finely curved Outlines, in combination with the woods on their skirts, and the cul
tivation in the haughs which they enclose, they give in compensation many
agreeable close pictures. While it traverses the plain of Melrose it is so
overshadowed by orchards and broadly sheeted from the margin with the
most ornately cultivated plain And picturesquely screened in the brief distance
by the Eildons and Candenknowes and diversified sylvan heights as to seem
like a river luxuriating in beauty. From this vale to near the point where
it leaves Roxburghshire, it has seldom on its banks any considerable expan-
sion of haugh, but is in general shut in by hanging plains and soft rising grounds
all green, arable, or wooded allowing very limited views of its channel, but cutting it
into a series of delightful scenes and commanding brilliant stretches of dale
landscape from the Eildon Hills to the Cheviots. But at Kelso and a little
above, where the majestic and richly jewelled river rolls past the termination
of the broad gay path of the almost rival Teviot coming down to
pay its princely tribute, a scene of blushing and brilliant beauty expands a-
round it, on which the imagination lives as if it were a reminiscence of paridise,