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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
THE KAIMS The Kames

The Kames

The Kames

The Kaims


Kaims
Kaims

Kaims
John Hood Esqr. Stoneridge
James Dickson Esqr. Bughtrig
Mr Johnston Kennetsideheads
Mr Stevenson Schoolmaster

Chalmers Caledonia
David Milne Home Esqr.
New Statistical Account
028.05 ; 028.09 This name, the Scottish term for "the Combs" applies to a long ridge consisting chiefly of waterworn stones, raised several feet above the Surface, and passing through the S W [South West] part of the parish in a N N W [North North West] direction. It is evidently of no artificial construction for it varies continually in its elevation and breadth and sometimes disappears underground for several hundred yards. It is supposed that an aqueous current, setting in from the North has at one time connected the German Ocean with the Irish Sea, and deposited in its course, the coarse gravel consisting of Graywacke and sometimes a very fine sand forming excellent Sandpits as is found in the field South of Hardacres.
Similar and very distinct ridges have also been observed towards the North in the part of Greenlaw and others, and a continuation of it is also traceable towards the South in the adjoining County of Roxburgh. The whole feature offers a very interesting investigation for a Geologist.

See the Name Sheet of Greenlaw Parish for some interesting correspondence sent to the Schoolmaster of the parish

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Parish of Eccles Sheet 28 No. 5 Trace 3
Collected by H. Sharban

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