After the lecture Richard took course participants on a tour of the " Cutty Sark " to view its large collection of merchant figureheads.
Another delight for your eyes is the world's last surviving tea clipper, Cutty Sark.
At the extreme west between the Sark and Esk as far up the latter as its junction with the Liddel, there was a strip of country, a "No man's land," for generations the haunt of outlaws and brigands.
I gaed tae the claes shoap tae buy a strippit sark, I wis tryin it on when the haill place gaed dark.
On the English side the region is watered by the Till, Bowmont, Coquet, Rede and North Tyne; on the Scottish by the Tweed, Whiteadder, Leet, Kale, Jed, Kershope, Liddel, Esk and Sark.
She was wearing nothing but a " cutty sark ", a short shirt or chemise made of Paisley linen.
The most famous tea clipper of all time was the Cutty Sark built in Britain in 1869.
The short land-frontier of England with Scotland (its length is only loo m.) is in great measure a physical boundary, as considerable lengths of it are formed on the east side by the river Tweed, and on the west by Kershope Burn, Liddel Water, and the river Sark; while for the rest it follows pretty closely the summit of the Cheviot Hills, whose highest point is the Cheviot (2676 ft.).