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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| RIVER NORTH ESK | River North Esk | Revd. [Reverend] S. Moncrieff Penicuik Mr Cowan M.P. [Member of Parliament] Penicuik Co. [County] Map |
007 ; 11 ; 012 ; 018 | A rivulet rising amongst the Pentland Hills at the west end of the parish of Penicuik and flowing first in a Southerly direction divides the Counties Peebles and Midlothian, after which it stretches away towards the north east end of the County marching the parishes of Penicuik, Lasswade, Dalkeith and Inveresk, joining the River South Esk below Dalkeith Palace and soon after empties itself into the Firth of Forth at the town of Musselburgh. The beauty of the district and scenery through which it meanders is unrivalled in the Kingdom. its margin has been the site of many conflicts between the English and Scotch in the 14th and 15th centuries & upon it yet stands the ruins of many edifices and strongholds the principal of which are Roslin Castle & Chapel" "old Woodhouselee" " Burntstane Castle" " and Ravensnook", which have connected it in a high degree with the annals of Scotland, nor are its romantic and poetic associations of an inferior order, Sir Walter Scott, Allen Ramsay and Drummond having tended to place it among the classic. - The utility of this stream is as admirable as its beauty, it being said to turn more machinery than any other water of its size in the Kingdom 10 paper and several corn mills, with other inferior works are turned by it during its course and the principal towns and villages in the County are reared upon its either bank They are Musselburgh, Dalkeith, Lasswade, Loanhead and Penicuik, with a few hamlets of little note. Its name is derived from Gaelic, water in that tongue being Usk or usque at least I infer so from the Irish word Usquebaugh (the water of life) which has now become anglicised. |
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