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Parish of Hutton

Hutton (ph.) [Parish] -- Hutton (ph.) [Parish] -- Continued -- but everywhere itis thoroughly cultivated, [] spreads out before the eye of an agriculture[] most-pleasing of all features of scenery. The[] the banks of the streams is a deep, risch loa[m] [re]markably fertile, and well-adapted to wheat; and, over a breadth of about a mile in the int[] it is thin, and rests on a strong clay, and though not infertile, demands the expenditure on skill and labour. The climate is in general, dry, and possessed of more than avera[ge] []ubriousness. Sandstone, though at a considerable depth below the surface, eve[] abounds, and on the banks of the Whittadder, is a small stratum of prime gyps[um] Paxton house and Tweed hill, both Situated on the Tweed, at a short distance [] each other - the latter a neat mansion, and the former a massive somewhat supe[] rather heavy pile constructed from a design by the famous Adams - send down their demesnes to the margin of the river, and reciprocates with it enchantments of Spittall house, near the centre of the parish, is a leasing mansion
There is no portion of Hutton within any other Parish
There is no portion of any other Parish within that of any other Parish -

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