The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

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TIIE BRITISH ISLES.
Berwick-on-Tweed having been severed from the county and attached to
England, there is not a single large town. At Coldstream, on the Tweed, General
Monk, in 16G0, raised the regiment still called the Coldstream Guards. Earhton
and Lauder are villages in Lauderdale. Chcrnside, near the confluence of the
two Adders, is the birthplace of David Hume. Bitiise, the largest town in the
county, though its population numbers less than 3,000 souls, is engaged in hand-
loom weaving ; whilst Greenlaw, on the Black Adder, though the county town, is
merely a smaU village with a fine county hall and gaol. Ei/cmouih, the only seaport
Fi"- 160.—FtRTH OF Forth.
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of the county, engages in the herring fishery. The coast to the north of it is
exceedingly wild. Two of its promontories are occupied by the lighthouse of
St. Abb's Head, and by Fast Castle, described as Wolf's Crag in the "Bride
of Lammermuir." The ravine of the Pease, or Peaths, descending to the coast,
is si^anned by a singular bridge.
The three counties which lie along the southern coast of the Firth of Forth
have been carved out of the ancient district of Lothian, and are hence still
frequently described as East, Mid, and "West Lothian.