Peebles, a county in the south of Scotland. It has already been described under the word Peebles; but in that article several inaccuracies were committed, which a gentleman of that county has been kind enough to point out, and which therefore we take this opportunity of correcting.

Tweedale is chiefly a grazing county, producing excellent mutton from healthy black-faced sheep. It is remarkable, that among this particular breed the rot or drophical disease, and the trembling illness, are exceedingly rare, unless when they happen to be imported by stranger sheep.—The account which we formerly gave of the vast number of eels swarming in West-water Loch, and tumbling into the river Yarrow at particular seasons, is a mistake. At present no greater number of eels is seen there than in other rivers and lochs. This loch and Yarrow water are more than 20 miles aunder, and running different ways, so that the account at any rate was impossible. The lake on the borders of Annandale is at present called Loch Skeen, and not Loch Gennet; the cataract which it forms is called the Grey Mare's Tail: the fall is into Moffat water. Douglas of Cavers ought not to have been reckoned among the families of Tweedale, as that branch of the Douglastes belongs to a different county. Our mistake proceeded from this circumstance.—In very ancient times all the country washed by the Tweed went by the name of Tweedale, and the Douglastes were wardens of that district. Peebles lies in N. Lat. 55° 38'. W. Long. 3°