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THE BRITISH ISLES. 



Peebles, which occupies the upper basin of the Tweed, its boundaries coinciding 

 nearly witli those of the ancient district of Tweeddale, is for the most part 

 a wild pastoral region, sloping northward from the Hart Fell, but communi- 

 cating on the west, through the curious breach of Biggar, with the valley of the 

 Clyde. Pcchirs, the county town, is but a small place Avith some woollen trade. 

 InncrJeithcn, a village at the confluence of Leithen Water with the Tweed, has 

 mineral springs. 



Ski.kirk is traversed by the Tweed in the north, whilst the bulk of the shire 

 lies within Ettrickdale and Yarrowdale — the one drained by a '' water " thrown 

 off from Ettrick Pen (2,269 feet), the other by a stream descending from St. 

 Mary's Loch. Selkirh, the county town, has been famous for centuries for the 

 manufacture of single-soled shoes, and woollen-mills have lately been erected 



Fig. 158. — Galashiels and Mklkose. 



Scnle 1 : 2X8.000, 



I Mile. 



along the banks of the Ettrick. In the neighbouring dale of the Yarrow are the 

 ruins of " Newark's stately tower," and the farm of Foulshiels, where Mungo 

 Park was born. 



Galashiels, near the confluence of the Gala with the Tweed, and. on the borders 

 of Ptoxburghshire, is, with Hawick, the great manufacturing town of the valley of 

 the Tweed, and one of the principal seats of the woollen and hosiery trades, being 

 known more especially for its tartans and "tweeds." 



Roxburgh extends southward from the Tweed to the Cheviot Hills, which 

 separate it from Northumberland, and reaches in the south-west beyond the 

 uplands connecting the Cheviots with the more central hills of the Lowlands 

 into the valley of the Liddel, which is tributary to the Tees, and through 

 it to the Sol way Firth. The south-western part of the county forms the 

 district of Liddisdale, whilst the main portion, sinking down towards the Tweed, 



