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HUTTON [parish] Hutton Ph [Parish] Map of Berwickshire
New Statistical account of Berwickshire
Fullerton's Gazetteer of Scotland
017 ; 018 ; 023 ; 024 Hutton, a parish in the district of Merse at the south-eastern verge of Berwickshire.
It is, in a loose sense, of a triangular form, but has so many curves and indentations in its outline, as to be of a very irregular figure. It is bounded on the north by Chirnside, Foulden and Mordington; on the east by Mordington and the Liberties of Berwick; on the south-east by England; on the south-west by Ladykirk; and on the west by Whitesome and Edrom. Measured as a triangle, it extends 4½ miles on the north side, 3½ on the south-east side, and 4¼ on the south-west side. The Whiteadder is its boundary-line over the whole of the north, and 1½ mile at the east, and runs partly between rockey banks of inconsiderable height, and produces a few salmon, and great plenty, as well as great variety of trout. The Tweed rolls its majestic volume of waters, in a beautifully curved line, 3½ or 3¾ miles along its south-eastern boundary, overlooked by gentle undulations of the surface along its banks, yielding large supplies of salmon, whitling, and grilses, and brings up the tide with a sufficient depth of water for wherry navigation. The inequalities of the surface along its banks, and similar inequalities along those of the Whiteadder, possess capabilities with the aid of more plantations than they possess, of producing a picturesque effect; and though rising, in the average to only about 150 feet above sea-level, they beautifully diversify the lucious yet tame plain in the midst of which they rise, and relieve its luxuriant but flat expanse from an aspect of monotony. All the surface of the parish, inland from the rivers, is, with some scarcely noticeable exceptions, nearly a dead level; but everywhere

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