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LAMMERMOOR HILLS Lammermoor Hills Map of Berwickshire
Fullerton's Gazetteer of Scotland
New Statistical Account of Berwickshire
Lammermoor-hills. A broad range of moorish heights, stretching eastward from the vale of Gala-Water, in the south-east extremity of Mid-Lothian, to the German Ocean at the promontories of Fast-Castle, Ernscleugh, and St. Abbs-head, in the parish of Coldingham Berwickshire. The Lammermoors all lie within East-Lothian and 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 clothed with forest, and must then have been as bewildering to the Traveller as grandly sylvan in their vast Contribution to the landscape. They still have natural woods hanging on some of their steeps, and, in such localities, are warmed out of their chilly aspect; but over their summits, and down their higher slopes they are almost even when nakedly dressed in heath. The soil in nearly all the upper parts is a light peat mould; and even in some of the lower parts -- as in the parish of Westruther -- it is a swampy moss. But elsewhere the prevailing peat is mixed with sand and clay, or gives place to comparitively Kindly soil; and in the vales and lower slopes, irrigated by the numerous streams which are collected on the broad ridge, and coming trottingly to the plains, are belts and expanses of fertility, and agricultural, as well as scenic beauty. Primary micaseous schist Composes the entire range, not only of the Lammermoors, but of the heights which Continue it through Peebleshire, till it joins the metalliferous mountains about the source of the Clyde Lammerlaw, which rises in the parish of Lauder and which gives name to the [Continued on page 8]

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