564 SHORT TOUR OF SCOTLAND. 



Hers as enter England with narrow-minded re- 

 ligious prejudices againft the eflablifhmcnt of that 

 country, and particularly that learned and refpcdlable 

 body, the bifhops, who, in the opinion ofenthufi- 

 afts, will be denied the felicity of a future \ 

 Let all fuch perfons hide their faces, and tremble 

 for their unchriftian difpolition towards their fel- 

 low-creatures, and the miiehievous confequences to 

 fociety, wlv fuch prcfumption gains the 



afcendant. 



A few miles further, opens a view of the fweet 

 \v '.ruling Tweed ; little indebted, however, at this 

 place, to human induftry, in the planting of ; 

 and other decorations. Berwic now app< .trs rifing 

 from the north fide of the river, over which there is 

 a handfome bridge of 16 arches. Berwic is fiti. 

 335 miles from London, and 53 from Edinburgh. 



It was antiently a place of great ftrength, ,and of 

 more confiderable dimenfions than at prefent ; often 

 taken by the Englilh, and as often retaken; ar 

 length it was finally wrefted from the Scots in 1482, 

 and is now a county of itfelf, governed by the 1 

 lifli laws, though fituated in Scotland. Its har- 

 bour, ialmon-rifiieries, and exports, have formerly 

 been mentioned. On leaving this place, we have 

 to afcend a hill, which rifes, as ufual, to a great 

 height from the river, and affords a variety of 

 profpe&s ; on the eaft is the main fea, on the fouth 

 is Berwic, the Tweed, and the coaft of Northumber- 

 land ; and on the fouth -weft are the Cheviot hillb. 



We are now in the fhire of Merfe, formerly Ber- 

 wiclhire : it confifts of two divifions, the lower and 

 the upper ; the lower divifion (Iretches along the 

 north fide of the Tweed near 30 miles in length, 

 and is in general a pleafant well-improved country , 

 the upper part is that through which we pafs to 

 burgh, and being moftly high lands, the air is 

 (harp, and the foil indifferent. 



A few 



