Berwickshire, a fertile Scottish county between the Lammermoors, inclusive, and the Tweed; is divided into the Merse, a richly fertile plain in the S., the Lammermoors, hilly and pastoral, dividing the Merse from Mid and East Lothian, and Lauderdale, of hill and dale, along the banks of the Leader; Greenlaw the county town.
Population (circa 1900) given as 32,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Berwick-on-Tweed * Berze`lius, Johan Jakob