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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MERSE (District) Merse (District) Fullertons Gazetteer
New Statistical Account
Chalmers Caledonia
021 ; 022 ; 027 ; 028 In ancient ties, the Shire of Berwick seems to have been a Separate jurisdiction from the Bailliary of Lauderdale, and to have been itself divided into the "Merse" and "Lammermoor" districts _
LAMMERMOOR (District) Lammermoor (District) Fullertons Gazetteer
New Statistical Account
Chalmers Caledonia
015 ; 021

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It is not easy what had been the exact boundaries and extent of these 3 divisions and almost obsolete _

For the purposes of agricultural inquiry, the whole county May be very Conveniently Considered under two districts - the "Merse" and the "Lammermoor":the former including all the Comparatively low land along Tweed, Whiteadder, Blackadder, & Eye; and the latter comprehending Lauderdale, along with the More hilly country Called "Lammermoor" - According to the general division of the County just pointed out, the Merse

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