. The earth and its inhabitants ... ng town on the Teviot. Berwickshire is a maritime county to the north of the Tweed, which, inaddition to the fruitful plain of the Merse, and the valleys of the Lauder andthe Black and White Adder, includes the southern slopes of the LammermuirHills and a small district alono the cliff-bound coast. 824 THE BRITISH ISLES. J>er\vick-on-T\veed buving been severed from the eounty and uttuchcd toEngland, there is not a single large town. At CiMsfriinii, on the Tweed, GeneralMonk, in 16()0, raised the regiment still called the Coldstream Guards. Earhtonand Laiu
. The earth and its inhabitants ... ng town on the Teviot. Berwickshire is a maritime county to the north of the Tweed, which, inaddition to the fruitful plain of the Merse, and the valleys of the Lauder andthe Black and White Adder, includes the southern slopes of the LammermuirHills and a small district alono the cliff-bound coast. 824 THE BRITISH ISLES. J>er\vick-on-T\veed buving been severed from the eounty and uttuchcd toEngland, there is not a single large town. At CiMsfriinii, on the Tweed, GeneralMonk, in 16()0, raised the regiment still called the Coldstream Guards. Earhtonand Laiu/cr are villages in Lauderdale. , near the confluence of thetwo Adders, is the birthplace of David Hume. Liom, the largest town in thecounty, though its population numbers less than 3,000 souls, is engaged in hand-loom weaving ; whilst Greenhnc, on tlie Black Adder, though the county town, ismerely a small village with a fine county hall and gaol. Eijemouih, the only seaport Fig. IGO.—FUITK Ol- 1 : 177,
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