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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAMMERMOOR HILLS | Lammermoor Hills | Map of Berwickshire Fullerton's Gazetteer Scotland New Statistical account of Berwickshire |
009 | A broad range of Moorish heights, stretching eastwards from the vale of Gala Water in the S.E. [South East] extremity of Mid Lothian. to the German ocean, at St. Abbs Head. in the parish of Coldingham, Berwickshire -- The Lammermoors all lie within East Lothian, & Berwickshire, Commencing at their extreme Western limit, forming for two-thirds of their extent a Southern screen or belt of uplands to Mid Lothian; and Constituting - if the Lammermoor part of Lauderdale be included - nearly one half of Berwickshire ----- The Lammermoors, are, in themselves, an extensive Curvature of, for the most part, wild, cheerless, unsightly heights, nowhere bold and imposing in aspect - and often Subsiding into low rolling Table-lands of bleak Moor -- They were at one time, or period, clothed with Forest, and must have been as bewildering to the Traveller as grandly sylvan in their Contribution to the Landscape --- |
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