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battlements of Berwick, an English town upon 

 Scottish ground, whose banks are bath'd with 

 the sturdy torrents of Tweed, that descend from 

 a mountainous elevation, in or near to Errick- 

 steen ; distant about some eight or nine miles 

 from the famous Tintaw, whose eminent ascents 

 face the English frontiers, standing on the Bor- 

 ders or South Marshes of Scotland. So that 

 from Erricksteen, though some alledg from Tin- 

 taw, runs the glittering and resolute streams of 

 Tweed. 



However Tintaw is a prodigious mountain, 

 whose lofty broaches break the burdned clouds. 

 And such is Errick, if fame be a true oracle, 

 that spouts forth three large and spacious rivers 

 that wash the pleasant banks of Scotland ; one 

 of them is Tweed (as above expressed) that runs 

 east directly to the town of Berwick, and espou- 

 seth her self with the ocean there ; gliding along 

 the English promontories, and is the original of 

 Tweed's Dale. Another river is Annon, that 

 bathes the fertil and florid banks of England, 

 and creates a dale, called Annon's Dale ; so 

 glides along towards the Quaking Sands ; and 

 not far from Carlisle lancheth forth into the 

 ocean. But the third is Cloyd, and is the last 

 mentioned ; yet is it nothing inferior to any of 

 the former. This river directs her course north 

 and by west, towards the lofty and domineering 



