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XX VI. NORTHUMBERLAND. 



THE Tyne, one branch of which enters this county 

 from Cumberland, and after receiving the east and 

 west Alon, joins the other branch, which rises at a 

 place called Tynehead, flows onward to Newcastle, and 

 discharges itself into the German Ocean, under the 

 walls of Tynemouth Castle, after having received, on 

 its way, the Shele and the Read, the Blythe and the 

 Wensbeck, which flow nearly eastward from the centre 

 of the county to the sea, the Coquet, which rises near 

 the eastern border of Roxburghshire, and flowing south- 

 east, falls into the sea at Warkworth; the Derwent., 

 which rises in the Durham moors, and reaches the 

 Tyne a little above Newcastle; the Alne and the Till, 

 the former of which, rising north of the Coquet, flows 

 past Alnwick Castle, and meets the sea at the port of 

 Alemouth; while the latter rises a little south of the 

 Cheviot Hills, and running first east, and then winding 

 about to the northward, falls into the Tweed below 

 Arnhill; and the Tiviot and the Tweed, the boundary 

 rivers between England and Scotland, all abound with 

 fish, some of them of a very superior description. A 

 vast quantity of salmon is caught and pickled at 

 Berwick. 



XXVII. NOTTINGHAM. 



THE Trent, which enters the county at the south- 

 west point, where it joins the Erwash, and passing on 

 in a north-easterly direction, enters Lincolnshire, and 

 falls into the Number ; the Idle, which rises in Sher- 

 wood Forest, and after passing through the parks of 



