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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| SIBYL'S WELL | Sibyl's Well | Continued | popularly known as the Bloody Head-Rig, where some border struggle ended. Some say it was a party from Flodden & that its waters ran bloody long after. I suppose it was the uncertainty of tradition respecting this well, that induced the proprietor to call it the Sibyl's, in allusion to the Sibyline Books at Rome, but there is no certainty about the why of this name. I have little doubt but th estone cutter was at fault about the spelling of the name. The country or common people, call it Sibyl - making the i long". N. Burnat Cap [Captain] NE. 17 Jany [January] 1858. |
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