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 townhouse. The population in 1801 amounted to 4196 souls. Kelso has a very considerable market, and great quantities of corn are sold here weekly by sample. The abbey of Tyronenians 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 fleepole 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 about 2000l. Scots a-year. The abbot was allowed to wear a mitre and pontifical robes; to be exempt from episcopal jurisdiction, and permitted to be present at all general councils. The environs of Kelso are very fine: the lands consist of gentle risings, enclosed with hedges, and extremely fertile. They have much reason to boast of their prospects. From the Chalkheugh is a fine view of the forks of the rivers, Roxburgh hill, Sir John Douglas's neat seat, and at a distance Fleurus; and from Pinnacle hill is seen a vast extent of country, highly cultivated, watered with long reaches of the Tweed, well wooded on each margin. These borderers ventured on cultivation much earlier than those on the west and east, and have made great progress in every species of rural economy. Turnips and cabbages for the use of cattle cover many large tracts; and potatoes appear in vast fields. Much wheat is raised in the neighbourhood, part of which is sent up the frith of Forth, and part into England. The fleeces here are very fine. The wool is sent into Yorkshire, to Linlithgow, or into Aberdeenshire, for the stocking manufacture; and some is woven here into a cloth called plams, and sold into England to be dressed. Here is also a considerable manufacture of white leather, chiefly to supply the capital of Scotland. A fine stone bridge of six arches over the Tweed, near its confluence with the Teviot, was in 1798 carried away by a flood. It has since been rebuilt.