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LAMMERMOOR HILLS Lammermoor Hills Map of Berwickshire.
Fullerton's Gazeteer of Scotland
New Statistical Acct. [Account] of Berwickshire
Chalmers' Caledonia
009 ; 015 ; 016 A broad range of Moorish heights stretching eastward from the Vale of Gala-Water, in the southern extremity of Mid Lothian, to the German Ocean at the promontories of Fast Castle, Earnscleugh, And St Abb's Head in the parish of Coldingham in Berwickshire. The Lammermoors all lie within East Lothian and Berwickshire Commencing at their extreme western limit, forming for twothirds 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 tablelands Of bleak Moor. They were at one period Clothed with forest, and must have been as bewildering to the traveller as grandly sylvan in their vast Contribution to the landscape. ----- They have still natural woods hanging on some of their steeps, and in such localities are warmed out of their chilliness of aspect; but over their summits, and down their higher slopes, they are almost every where nakedly dressed in heath. The soil in nearly all the upper parts is a light 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 comparatively Kindly Soil, and in the vales or 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 senic beauty.

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