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paper-mill. Like all the southern Scotch towns, its appearance is neat and clean, being built of stone, and its houses covered with blue slate.

Making once more an exchange in our rivers, we dropped the Yeuse, and received in lieu of it the Esk; whose banks we pursued for half a mile beyond the town where they at once opened to us a picture of uncommon beauty; where the bed of the river, formed of pointed crags, its rugged sides composed of rock and wood, its foaming ca- taracts and rapid whirlpools, bestrode by a three- arched bridge (called the Skipper-Brig) of frightful height, are all spread beneath the eye at once. Over this formidable structure, from whence about three months since an unfortunate soldier jumped mto the boiling cauldron below, and was no more seen, the road to Longtown is conveyed; when, taking the left bank of the river, it penetrates into a grove of trees, (chiefly oak) and loses further prospect than the sylvan glades through which it steals, for three miles. Making a sudden turn to the left, it again crosses the river, availing itself of another stone bridge, from whose parapets two views singularly romantic, magnificent, and beau- tiful, present themselves up and down the stream. Above, tile rocky reach is finished by a proud hill of wood, on whose summit are seen the remaais of

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