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of gorge glen and variously fashioned houghs. Its screens or flanking
heights except at large openings where large tributaries bring lateral glens
and so closely pressed behind by towering elevations and so huddled to-
gether in their ridgy extensions as to command no extensive views yet by
their green soft surfaces and their finely curved outlines in combination in the haughs which
they enclose they give in compensation many agreeable close pictures.
While it traverses the plain of Melrose it is overshadowed by orchards and
broadly sheltered from the margin with the most ornately cultivated plain and picturesq-
uely screened in the brief distance by the Eildons and Cowdenknowes and diversified
sylvan heights as to seem like a river luxuriating in beauty. From this vale to near
the point where it leaves Roxburghshire it has seldom on its banks any considerable ex-
pansion of haugh but is in general shut in by hanging plains and soft rising grounds
all green arable or wooded allowing very limited views of its channel but cutting into a
series of delightful scenes and commanding brilliant stretches of dale landscape, from
the Eildon Hills to the Cheviots. But at Kelso and a little above where