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 . y 17 wide. It was built in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth,James I., and Charles I. The Tweed is navigable up to thebridge, but the entrance is narrowed by sandbanks. To remedythis inconvenience, a noble stone pier, half a mile in length, hasbeen built at the north side of the disemboguement of theriver. With the exception of iron-founding, which is carried onpretty extensively, there is no manufact
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 . y 17 wide. It was built in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth,James I., and Charles I. The Tweed is navigable up to thebridge, but the entrance is narrowed by sandbanks. To remedythis inconvenience, a noble stone pier, half a mile in length, hasbeen built at the north side of the disemboguement of theriver. With the exception of iron-founding, which is carried onpretty extensively, there is no manufacturing establishmentdeserving the name within many miles of Berwick. The tradeof the town is principally confined to the exporting of fish,corn, and coals to London and various ports in Scotland, and toforeign countries. There are regular traders between Berwick,London, Leith, Newcastle, and Hull. The salmon fisheries inthe Tweed have for many centuries been very productive, andgreat quantities are packed in ice, and exported to London andother places. Berwick possesses a public subscription library, a dispensary,a free grammar school, a charity school, &c. The corporation w ° 1 2 H O 5 -.
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