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Continued entries/extra info

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64 Northumberland Street
Edinburgh
24 Octr. [October] 1871

Col. [Colonel] Sir Henry James
&c &c
Ordnance Survey Office
Southampton

Sir,
In sheet No 24 of the Survey
of Scotland, being the northern Di
-vision of the parish of Kirriemuir
in the County of Forfar, there is
shewn, meeting on the top of a
Hill called "Catlaw", the bounda
ries of the three parishes of Kirrie
-muir, Lintrathen, & Kingoldrum.
These boundaries, besides being
the boundaries of three parishes,
are also the marches of three
properties, and between two of
these properties a dispute has
arisen to the precise bounda
-ry at the top of the hill, caused
partly by certain marks on the

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Ordnance Sheet, & which I think
some explanations from you or
the officer who made the survey
may tend to clear up.
The boundary of the Parishes
at the top takes something like
this shape.

[SKETCH]

The pole put up by the Royal En
-gineers, as indicating the top of the
hill, is at the point marked 2196.
The point 2186 is the old Cairn of
Catlaw which has long been recog
-nised as the point where the three
parishes meet. But apparent-

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