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IN S C O T L A N D .
In her fon, James VI. adverfity remitted for a time the perfe- '
pi of the face ; but refumed it with double fury againft his fuc-
|r'Charles. His fon experienced a long feries of misfortunes ; and
Jbigotted. James fuffered the puniihment of his infatuation, and
Jmitted. to his offspring, exile, and feclufion from the throne of
f anceftors.
ijafs by an inclofure called the Friery, the fite of a houfe of Fran- 1», belonging to Roxburgh. Ford the Tiviot, which gives the
: of Tiviotcdale to all the fine country from Melres to this place,
Jithftandirig it is waihed by the Tweed-, fo that the old fong,
■propriety, calls its inhabitants
A ll men o f pleafant Tiviotdale,
Fall by the river Tweed.
Ha|e here a moil charming view o f K elso, its antient church, Mr.
fs pretty houfe, and the elegant bridge of fix arches over the
H id, near its jundtion with the Tiviot. On croffing it enter that
jeat place built much after the manner of a Flemijh town, with a
Wre and town-houfe. It contains about twenty-feven hundred
has a very confiderable market, and great quantities of corn
irelbld here weekly, by .fample. The pariih church is darkfome
Bnconvenient, being part of that belonging to the abby ; but a
p e is building, in an octagonal form, eighty-two feet in diame-
jupported by a circle of pillars.
She abby.of Tyronenjians was a vail pile, and to judge by the
Vs, of venerable magnificence. The walls are ornamented
falfe round arches, interfedling each other. Such interfedlions
1 true Gothic arch, and may as probably have given rife to that
N n mode,
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