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distance 40 feet from the Northwest angle
beyond which the ground maintains its
natural gradient and condition.

K'partick [Kirkpatrick] Juxta - Mote Coates Hill
On the South West slope of Coates Hill at
an elevation of [blank] ft. [feet] above sea level, over:
:looking the valley of the Evan which flows
by at the base of the hill on the South East,
is a Mote Hill commanding a distant
prospect over Upper Annandale. It appears
to be to some extent an artificial mound
of earth and small stones as far as
its composition is ascertainable from
surface breaks, but as the ground
around rises towards it, it has doubtless
a natural eminence as its core. In form
it is oblong lying with its main axis
East by North, and South by West,
and rises to a height of 16 ft. [feet] at either
end, measuring over its level summit
some 40 feet by 35 feet, with a projection to
the West at a slightly lower level for some
24 feet. Extending past both ends at
base but not carried along the sides
further than on the East side the length of the
projecting spur is a trench some 30 feet in
width, very shallow at the West end and

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