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Polwarth Parish

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" There is a remain of a Somewhat different Kind, which is Situated within two Miles of Wedderlea and which the tradition of the [district] Calls the Caims. It consists of an immense ridge of Sand, between two extensive Mosses: Its breadth is from 20 to 100 feet its height from 14 to 40 feet: it runs out the length of three quarters of a Mile. There is no Such Sand as this, within many miles of this remain, which seems to a willing eye, to be the production of art rather than the work of nature" The Revd. [Reverend] Dr. Hewat's lLtter to me, dated 18th October 1791. See Dogden Moss. upon Armstrong's Map of Berwick, wherein this Singular ridge is Strikingly represented The name of Kaims or Caims, implies, that it is a ridge, which this appelation signifies. Yet Mr. Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, in that neighbourhood, has informed me, that being employed as a "Trustie," in executing a Turnpike Road-Law, he had ordered the Kaims to be bored in search of gravel, or other materials, for the new road, but, found none; and he was convinced, from what he saw that the singular ridge, is the work of nature, not of art."

From Chalmers Caledonia Page 211.