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is known as Teviotdale. Roxburgh, which derives its name from a royal castle 

 on the Lower Teviot, now in ruins, is largely engaged in the woollen and hosiery 

 trades. Crowds of visitors are annually attracted to it because of its association 

 with Sir "Walter Scott, and of the numerous ruins of ecclesiastical buildings which 

 he has rendered famous. Abbotsford, the residence of the poet, stands on the 

 wooded bank of the Tvreed, which there forms the western boundary of the 

 county. Melrose Abbey and Dryburgh Abbey, both in ruins, are on the same 

 river, but lower down. Kelso, on the northern bank of the Tweed, and opposite 

 the mouth of the Teviot, occupies a site of singular beauty. It, too, has the 

 remains of a stately abbey, overtopping, even in its ruined condition, all the houses 

 around it. 



Jedburgh, the county town, lies in the well-sheltered valley of the Jed, which 



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is tributary to the Teviot, and whose mild climate ripens fruit which elsewhere 

 in Scotland does not attain to maturity. It is a place of great antiquity, but its 

 castle and turreted walls did not shield it from being repeatedly burnt and pillaged 

 by English invaders. The ruins of its abbey are imposing even in their decay. 

 Sir David Brewster and Mrs. Somerville were born at Jedburgh. '•' Jethart 

 Justice " became proverbial during the border wars, when it was applied to 

 marauders who were hanged first and tried afterwards. Hawick is a thriving 

 manufacturing town on the Teviot. 



Berwickshire is a maritime county to the north of the Tweed, which, in 

 addition to the fruitful plain of the Merse, and the valleys of the Lauder and 

 the Black and White Adder, includes the southern slopes of the Lammermuir 

 Hills and a small district alono' the cliff-bound coast. 



