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1000 feet in elevation. For 25 miles the watershed ridge of the 

 two branches of the North Tyne forms the boundary between 

 Northumberland and Roxburghshire. Por 15 miles from north- 

 west to south-east the two dales, Eedesdale and North Tynedale, 

 run parallel with one another, broad grassy dales with villages 

 and farm-houses thinly scattered at the bottom or along the 

 banks and winding streams with numerous branches that lead 

 up gradually into the recesses of the moors. Between the Eeed- 

 water and upper part of the Coquet there is a broad continuous 

 ridge of heathery grit-crested moor, of which the highest point, 

 Ridlees Cairn, attains 1346 feet. Carter Fell, on the south of 

 the road on the Scotch border, at the very head of the Reed 

 overlooking Liddesdale, attains 1 600 feet. Near the head of the 

 Chattlehope Burn, the first stream of any consequence that falls 

 into the Eeedwater in the west is a fine waterfall amongst the 

 moors called Chattlehope Spout. The upper part of this dale is 

 very thinly populated, and seldom visited; but during the last 

 two hundred years the hand of agricultural improvement has 

 been steadily at work, and the wide morasses and neglected 

 heaths of the days of the moss-troopers have been many of them 

 drained and turned into sheep-walks, and here, as further north, 

 of the natural forests of the glens, the primeval woods of birch, 

 alder, oak, rowan, and willow, but few relics remain. At Ro- 

 chester, 10 miles south-east of Carter Fell, are marks of Roman 

 occupation. A few miles lower down is Otterburn, the scene of 

 the skirmish between the Percies and Douglasses, which the bal- 

 lad of Chevy Chase commemorates, and then comes Elsdon, the 

 principal village of the dale. Here Redesdale may be considered 

 to end. On each side a conspicuous hill, under 1000 feet in 

 height, rises up to guard the entrance, that on the west called 

 Hareshaw Moor, and that on the east the Ottercaps ; and the 

 stream turns suddenly to the south-west, flowing 6 miles in that 

 direction before it joins the North Tyne at Reedsmouth. 



The North Tyne rises in a broad hollow on the western edge of 

 the county, being formed by the union of several streams which 

 flow from a crescent of heathery gritstone hills extending from 

 Carter Fell, Carlingtooth Fell, Peel Fell, and Deadwater Fell, 



