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Title: Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical and historical
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Groome, Francis Hindes, 1851-1902
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Publisher: London : W. Mackenzie
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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of our moun-tains, writes the Rev. John Dick, M.A., who has beenminister from 1858, that Tweedsmuir embraces some ofthe highest summits in the Southern Highlands, andthese are pierced by numerous deep glens of variousscenery, some wildly moorland, some quietly pastoral,some ruggedly broken, and all bearing their contributionto the siller Tweed. The whole parish is mountainous,but the upper vale of the Tweed toward Tweedshaws iscomparatively bare and featureless, though even herethere are often, especially up the tributary burns, closescenes of simple beauty which charm and surprise thesolitary angler or pedestrian. Lower down the land-scape is much more impressive in outline and morepicturesquely diversified in detail. Near the village,which consists of only a few detached cottages, theroad to St Marys Loch crosses the old stono bridge ofone arch, under which the confined Tweed, tumblingthrough a rocky chasm, plunges into a deep linnwell known to angler and artist. To tho left of the
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TWEEDSMUIR TYNDRUM river, high up on the hill, Oliver House, the seat ofJ. T. Stodart, Esq., the only resident landowner, looksout from its ancestral trees upon one of the finest viewsin Peeblesshire. Right below, on its prominent knollbetween Tweed and Talla, stands the parish church, em-bowered in birch and elm and Scotch fir, up throughwhich rises the taper spire, whose red freestone tints con-trast harmoniously with the dark hues of the pine.Beyond the church, and flanking the right bank of theTalla, is the rounded form of Cockland, with its gentleslopes and green pastures; behind and above whichtowers the huge bulk of Broadlaw, one of the highestridges in the south of Scotland. Between Cockland andQuarter Hill the beautiful vale of Talla stretches away upsouth-south-eastward until lost to the eye in the recessesof the lofty mountain ranges which form the horizon inthat direction. The head of Talla Glen is a deep hollowor den, hemmed in on the one side by the steep spurs ofthe Bro

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