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tide. Take the' Tweed for an instance. The woollen 

 manufacturers on the banks of the Tweed and its tribu- 

 taries now make almost no use of the wool produced on 

 the hills overhanging their own tall chimneys, but bring 

 their materials from Saxony and Australia, their coals 

 from the Lothians and Northumberland, and find their 

 markets over all the world ; what has been done there 

 (-an and we hope will be done in other inland districts ; 

 and we rejoice to see Hawick, Selkirk, and Galashiels 

 already on their way to be Bradfords and Halifaxes. 

 But contemplate the results of having large towns fifty 

 or sixty miles from the sea — with contributions from 

 every village and even farm house — sending their whole 

 refuse down the river-channel through five counties ! 

 Look at what the Tweed is now, in contrast with what 

 will be its look and smell at that not distant then. See 

 her and hers rolling along, beautiful and beautifying, 

 through regions where every ruin is history and every 

 glen is song ; gathering her tributes from a thousand 

 hills — from where sweet Teviot sings unceasingly its 

 " Farewell to Cheviot's mountains blue ;" where pensive 

 Yarrow winds like a silver chain amid "the dowie dens;" 

 where, in the sad and silent "Forest" — 



" The wildered Ettrick wanders by, 

 Loud miirmiiring to the careless moon ; " 



till, grown stately, massive, and brimming, "Tweed's 

 fair river, broad and deep," wheeling beneath the donjon 

 keep of Norham and the battlements of Berwick, sinks 

 into the ocean as glittering pure as when she liroke away 

 from her native hills. Is all this to vanish, and in its 

 place a pestilential sewer ? Is that which now spreads 



