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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
SLATE HARBOUR Slate Harbour
Slate Harbour
Earl of Selkirk
William Mure Esqr.
050 [Situation] About 1 Mile S.W. [South West] by South of the town of Kirkcudbright.
A Small indent on the Sea Shore of St Mary's Isle, where vessels of small tonage lie to unload Coals etc. for the use of St Mary's house.
MID ISLE Mid Isle
Mid Isle
Earl of Selkirk
William Muir Esqr.
050 [Situation] About 1 1/4 Miles S.S.W. [South South West] of the town of Kirkcudbright.
A Small Park on St. Mary's Isle and Situated near to the West Side of the Garden. it is pleasantly ornamented with Clumps of Plantations and isolated trees. & its position on the Isle Seems to have suggested the name.

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Parish of Kirkcudbright

[Note against Mid Isle] NB Subsequently
objected to by the
same parties viz
[Earl of Selkirk, William Muir Esqr]

Not to be engraved
See Mr Muir's Letter dated 1st March
1854 - Page 54 of this Book

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