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drowned sheep, and hay or corn that may have lain 

 on the flooded lands near to it far, far up above. 



The Tweed is undoubtedly the queen of Scottish 

 rivers, not alone because of its length and the variety 

 of the scenery it passes through, and its clearer pebbly 

 strand than any other Scottish river enjoys, or the 

 number and varied character of the tributaries it re- 

 ceives, but because of its associations the aromas of 



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song and ballad that linger about it, the histories of 

 hero and of poet that are enlinked with it, the human 

 spell that is upon, it adding to it, and seeming to in- 

 terpret its varied beauty. True it is, as the poet 

 sings 



" Thy lot it is, fair stream, to flow amid 

 A varied vale : not mountain height alone, 

 Nor mere outspreading flat is dully thine, 



