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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
WANLOCK WATER Wanlock Water. Johnston's County Map -
Robert Simpson DD. [Doctor of Divinity] Sanquhar.
David Hunter.
002; 003; 007 [Situation] From the Lead Mines at Wanlockhead N,W, [North West] to Crawick Water,
A considerable stream falling
into the Crawick (on the Kirk-
Connel side) shortly after pas
-sing the Parish boundary between
Sanquhar and Kirkconnel. The
water of this stream is much dis
-coloured by the Mines of Wan
-lockhead. - The glen through
which the Wanlock flows be
-ing Enclosed on either side by
lofty mountains upon which
not a single varying feature
can be traced, presents a scene
strikingly bleak and desolate.

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[Page] 12.
Parish of Sanquhar -- Sheet 2-12. Trace No [Number] 2.

[Page is signed]
Thomas Matheson

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WANLOCK WATER: Note the handwriting for 'ly' in 'shortly' and 'strikingly' in the Descriptive Remarks.

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