. The earth and its inhabitants ... naif a Mile. 322 THE BRITISH ISLES. Peebles, which occupies the upper basin of the Tweed, its boundaries coincidingnearly witli those of the ancient district of Tweeddale, is for the most parta wild pastoral region, sloping northward from the Hart Fell, but communi-cating on the west, through the curious breach of Biggar, with the valley of theClyde. Pcchirs, the county town, is but a small place Avith some woollen , a village at the confluence of Leithen Water with the Tweed, hasmineral springs. is traversed by the Tweed in the no
. The earth and its inhabitants ... naif a Mile. 322 THE BRITISH ISLES. Peebles, which occupies the upper basin of the Tweed, its boundaries coincidingnearly witli those of the ancient district of Tweeddale, is for the most parta wild pastoral region, sloping northward from the Hart Fell, but communi-cating on the west, through the curious breach of Biggar, with the valley of theClyde. Pcchirs, the county town, is but a small place Avith some woollen , a village at the confluence of Leithen Water with the Tweed, hasmineral springs. is traversed by the Tweed in the north, whilst the bulk of the shirelies within Ettrickdale and Yarrowdale—the one drained by a water thrownoff from Ettrick Pen (2,269 feet), the other by a stream descending from Loch. Selkirh, the county town, has been famous for centuries for themanufacture of single-soled shoes, and woollen-mills have lately been erected Fig. 158.—Galashiels and Mklkose. Scnle 1 : ,. I Mile. along the banks of the Ettrick. In the neighbouring dale of the Yarrow are theruins of Newarks stately tower, and the farm of Foulshiels, where MungoPark was born. Galashiels, near the confluence of the Gala with the Tweed, and. on the bordersof Ptoxburghshire, is, with Hawick, the great manufacturing town of the valley ofthe Tweed, and one of the principal seats of the woollen and hosiery trades, beingknown more especially for its tartans and tweeds. Roxburgh extends southward from the Tweed to the Cheviot Hills, whichseparate it from Northumberland, and reaches in the south-west beyond theuplands connecting the Cheviots with the more central hills of the Lowlandsinto the valley of the Liddel, which is tributary to the Tees, and throughit to the Sol way Firth. The south-western part of the county forms thedistrict of Liddisdale, whilst the main portion, sinking down towards the Tweed, BEEWICKSHIEE. 323 is known as Teviotdale. Roxburgh, which derives its name from a royal cast
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