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See Dogden Moss, upon Armstrangs Map of Berwick, wherein this singular ridge of strikingly represented. The name Kaims or Caims, implies, that it is a ridge, which this appellation signifies. Yet, Mr Spottiswoode of Spottiwoode, in that neighbourhood, has informed me, that being employed as a Trustee, in executing a Turnpike law road, he had ordered the Kaims to be bored, in sea of gravel, or other materials for the New road but found none: and he was convinced, from what he saw, that this singular ridge is the work of nature & not of art."
Chalmers Caledonia
Vol. 2. P. 211