Rutherfurd's border hand-book : being a guide to the remarkable places, picturesque scenery, and antiquities of the border ; illustrated with numerous engravings on steel, and a map of the district . mote periodsCalkou and Kelchou, is supposed to owe its name to the cliffon which part of the town stands. The name Calkou is com-posed of two words—the Celtic calch or ceale, chalk, and theAnglo-Saxon ho or hou, a height; and as the cliff referred tocontains gypsum and other calcareous earths, the appellationCalkou is far from inappropriate. The town occupies a beau-tiful and extensive basin on th
Rutherfurd's border hand-book : being a guide to the remarkable places, picturesque scenery, and antiquities of the border ; illustrated with numerous engravings on steel, and a map of the district . mote periodsCalkou and Kelchou, is supposed to owe its name to the cliffon which part of the town stands. The name Calkou is com-posed of two words—the Celtic calch or ceale, chalk, and theAnglo-Saxon ho or hou, a height; and as the cliff referred tocontains gypsum and other calcareous earths, the appellationCalkou is far from inappropriate. The town occupies a beau-tiful and extensive basin on the north bank of the Tweed, op-posite the confluence of the Teviot with that river, and is sur-rounded on all sides by a delightful amphitheatre of wood-cladhills. Nor is the beauty of the situation of Kelso more strikingthan the cleanliness, the substantiality, and the city-like ap-pearance of the town itself. It consists of a spacious square or stances they were formed can only be conjectured, no historical explanationever having been ventured on. They may tell at least of times in thehistory of our country, when the vicissitudes of war made them be sought foras places of concealment. w CO. { KELSO. 59 market-place, from which four handsome streets diverge indifferent directions. There are also several minor streets,and another square, smaller than the former, but containing anumber of excellent houses. Kelso is a burgh of barony, go-verned under the general police act by a bailie and sixteencommissioners. The population is about 6000. Being situatedin the centre of a rich and fertile district, and itself the resi-dence of a number of families in easy circumstances who live ina style of considerable elegance, Kelso is a sort of provincialcapital, possessing numerous handsome shops, several of whichwould not be unworthy of the metropolis. There is a dailymarket for butcher-meat, fish, and vegetables; a weekly corn-market, where a very extensive business is transacted; and amo
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