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distances from each other, there are a series of raised plat- 

 forms, or terraces, sometimes running in an almost straight 

 line from the bottom to the top of the acclivity, and some- 

 times with a slight curve, but generally leaning a little 

 westward. The ancient river or lake bank for the distance 

 indicated above, faces south-west and south, while the 

 platforms, or terraces, present their fronts in a westerly 

 direction, running upwards for a distance of between seventy 

 and eighty feet. Supposing a great river at one time to 

 have swept through the vale of Kelso in the same direction 

 as the Tweed, these terraces would have opposed themselves 

 to its current. When viewed from a distance, these swell- 

 ing hillocks resemble heaving sea-billows chasing each other 

 transversely along the shore. 



In a distance of about half a mile there are fourteen or 

 fifteen of these teraces of different heights. On entering the 

 Angroflat Plantation, the first to present itself will measure 

 from three to four feet on the face of the slope, which lies at 

 an acute angle. This is succeeded by one of smaller pro- 

 portions; but the next rises nearly as high as the first. 

 Crossing the statute labour road, where there has been a 

 considerable cutting in the course of its formation, there has 

 been a steep declivity facing eastwards, which is different 

 from all the rest. After crossing the road there is a very 

 gentle slope for a greater distance than occurs elsewhere, 

 until the next west-fronting terrace is reached, the slope of 

 which is perhaps the most considerable of the series, and 

 will rise to about eight feet. The next diminishes a little 

 in height, and may not exceed six feet. The remaining one 

 is about the same height as the last, and in the interval 

 between them the ground presents a very ridgy appearance, 

 as if it had been cultivated and laid off in narrow ridges 

 previous to the trees being planted. There are distinct 

 traces of these ridges of cultivation as one proceeds east- 

 ward, but here they rise higher at the centre than at other 

 places. Proceeding farther along, the next terrace has also, 

 about six feet of slope, and this is succeeded by two which 

 rise to little more than a ridge, then by one about two-and- 

 a-half feet, and next by one between three and four feet. 

 There are four or five other terraces, measuring from two to 

 four feet on the slope, between some of which the ridges in 

 which the ground has been laid off for cultivation are very 

 distinctly marked in regular succession. 



