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OSO. [Ordnance Survey Office] Aberdeen
27th February 1866.

Captain Pratt.

The following name "Faemywell
Pool" supplied by your Examiners
is, I think, incorrect.- I have
found both on the Dee & Don Rivers
that "Pot- not- Pool is the term
used invariably, & in this instance
my Examiners have also so given
it in their Name Sheets, with the
Subjoined authorities: viz:-
Mr William Warrack, Factor, Fintray.
Mr David Milne, Teacher, Fintray
Valuation Roll 1864-5.

The orthography of this name
is, I think, "Faimiewell" from
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OSO [Ordnance Survey Office] Inverness
March 3-1866

Capt. [Captain] Courtney RE [Royal Engineers]

With reference to the name
Faemywell & the Daueis.
I can now give you no
confirmation as the plans
of the parishes in which they
are have been forwarded
long ago to Southampton-
Indeed I am not sure that
they are not published-
From memory it would
appear as if Faemywell Pool
& Faemywell Pot were both
applied to the place in
question. In other Case
we have also sometimes
used the word Pot
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Transcriber's notes

Both messages continue on OS1/1/45/56.