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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| RIVER SOUTH ESK | 033 | "A river of considerable magnitude in Forfarshire. It rises in the extreme north west of the County, among the highest of the Grampian range within ½ a mile of the source of a chief tributary of the Aberdeenshire Dee. It flows eastward 5 miles & S.E [South East] 7, intersecting longitudionally the oblong parish of Clova, in the extreme W. [West] enters the parish of Cortachie in a S.Ey. [South Easterly] direction traverses it over a distance of 7 miles, for 3 miles after its intersection of Cortachie, it continues to flow South Eastward, & divides that parish on the West from Tannadice on the East: & it then coming in contact with the Prosen Water, maintains a direction generally due East: From the point of its confluence with the Prosen, it divides the parishes of Kirriemuir, Oathlaw, Aberlemno, on the south. from those of Tannadice, Menmuir & Brechin on the North. It then enters the last of these parishes, sweeps past the town, & after leaving the parish divides for 2 miles Marytown on the south, from Dun on the north: & then suddenly expands into Montrose Basin: It then emerges by two narrow outlets, which fork round an island & then open into a channel ¼ mile wide, along which the river runs to embrace the ocean at a distance of 1¼ miles from the exit from the basin. The family of Carnegie, the proprietors of Kinnaird, are descended from noble ancestors who accepting title from the river are called Earls of Southesk." Fullarton's Gazetteer. |
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