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Places. Height. Remarks. 
Feet. 
Yard Ford, : ; : 15 Base of lowest visible cliff. 
Start Fishery, . ‘ : 18 Do. do. 
Tweedhill, ; : : 21 Marked by a stone with inscription. 
Chain Bridge, . P 4 204 Marked by an iron bolt put into north pier. 
Field, west of do, . : 23 Marked by a stone with inscription. 
Horncliff (east of), . ; 22 Base of lowest cliff. . 
Horncliff (west of), . ‘ 20 Do. do. 
Norham Castle (opposite to), 23 Base of lowest visible cliff. 
Upsetlington Boathouse, 23 Mark on window of boat-house. 
Milne Graden, . \ : 23 Marked by a stone still standing below garden. 
Mouth of Till, ‘ : : 15 Base of lowest cliff. Tull valley allowed Tweed flood 
waters to flow into it. 
Coldstream Bridge, . : 22 Height pointed out by Jas. Cunningham of Coldstream, 
who watched the flood. 
Carham Hall, . , ; 18 Height pointed out by Mr Huntley. 
Wark (opposite to), . . 1 Base of lowest cliff. 
Sprouston (east of), . ; 16 Do. do, 
Hendersyde, . : : 15 Do. do. 
Broomlands, . ; - M3 Do. do. 
Kelso (Rosebank), . : 143 Marked by a stone with inscription. 
Kelso (below re : 14 Marked by brass plate on house with inscription. 
Kelso Bridge, . : 22 Letter from Mr Rutherford, Kelso. 
Kelso Mill, ; é 20 Information by the miller, Kelso. 
Kelso Teviot-Foot Mill, é 18 Do. Mr Rutherford. 
Floors Policy, . : ; 14 Marked by a stone 300 yards from river. Sime bears 
that flood reached the spot at 2 p.m. 
Makerstoun, . : : 13 Marked by a stone fixed by the late Sir Thomas 
Macdougal Brisbane. | 
Rutherford Mill, ; ; 14 Marked on mill door. 
Mertoun, é : ; 14 Marked on a tree pointed out by Lord Polwarth. | 

On the Tweed, below Drygrange Bridge, two lines are visible,—one on each 
side of the river at 12 feet; and the second on the left bank, ata eee of 
about 16 feet. 
On a general study of the foregoing table, one or two remarks occur. 
It will be observed that the flood line is higher at some places than at others. 
The difference may be accounted for, in most cases, by the circumstance, 
that where a river runs in a narrow channel between banks nearly vertical, the 
stream in a flood must rise more in those parts of its course, than where the 
banks slope upwards at alow angle. Thus, whilst the Tweed at-Coldstream, 
Kelso, and Milne Graden rose 22 and 23 feet, at the mouth of the Till, situated 
Gainslaw farm has left traces of an ancient bed, at least 50 yards north of its present channel; and at 
that place the south bank shows a high cliff, indicating the action of the stream against it, probably after 
the river left the north bank. But there are more aticiéht records of change than those noted by the 
Ordnance surveyors. About + of a mile to the north there is a steepish bank, the base of which is” 
now 21 feet above the surface of the Tweed; and in the Whitadder valley there is a corresponding 
bank at the same height, showing that the two rivers had once united, at or near a point about a mile 
from where the Whitadder now joins the Tweed. The flood mark of the Whitadder now is only about 
12 or 13 feet above the stream in its present channel. 

