Description
"Roxburghshire, inland co., in S. of Scotland, bounded N. by Berwickshire,
NE. and SE. by Northumberland and Cumberland, SW. by Dumfriesshire, and
NW. by Selkirkshire and Edinburghshire; greatest length, N. and S., 42 miles;
greatest breadth, E. and W., 30 miles; area, 425,657 ac., pop. 53,442. The
main body of the co., or three-fourths of the whole area, belongs to the
basin of the Teviot; hence the general name of Teviotdale is sometimes used
for Roxburghshire. The upper portions of Teviotdale and its tributary vales,
rising by gently sloping and well rounded ridges from the banks of the streams
to the watershed of the Cheviots, are chiefly bare and pastoral, but the
lower portions consist of rich and well wooded valleys."
from John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British
Isles 1887
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