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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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RIVER TWEED | River Tweed | The County Map Fullerton's Gazetteer Map of Scotland |
008.11; 08.12; 008.15; 08.16 | The popular & the really remotest Source of the Tweed is a paltry fountain Called Tweed's Well, a little above the farm house of Tweedshaws, and at the foot of a hill named Tweed's Cross, on the South western boundary of the parish of Tweedsmuir Peebles-shire & 1500 feet above the level of the Sea-- From its remotest Sources to the sea at Berwick upon Tweed, it performs irrespectively of windings a run of about 100 miles, & drains about 1870 Square Miles A Barnaby Cap. A.E. [Captain Royal Engineers] 31 May 1859. |
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[Page] 40Parish of St. Boswells
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