a town of Roxburghshire in Scotland, pleasantly situated on the river Tweed, in W. Long. 1° 20', N. Lat. 55° 38'. Of this town Mr Pennant gives the following description. It is built much after the manner of a Flemish town, with a square and town-house. It contains about 2700 souls, has a very considerable market, and great quantities of corn are sold here weekly by sample. The abbey of Tyronians was a vast pile, and, to judge by the remains, of venerable magnificence. The walls are ornamented with false round arches, intersecting each other. Such intersections form a true Gothic arch; and may as probably have given rise to that mode as the arched shades of avenues. The steeple of the church is a vast tower. This house was founded by David I., when earl of Cumberland. He first placed it at Selkirk, then removed it to Roxburgh, and finally, when he came to the crown, fixed it here in 1128. Its revenues were in money above 200l. Scots a-year. The abbot.