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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
RIVER NORTH ESK River North Esk Sir G. Clerk Bart [Baronet] PenicuiK House.
Revd. [Reverend] S. Moncreiff PenicuiK Manse.
Co. [County] Map.
A Rivulet rising upon the march of Midlothian an Peeblesshire and meandering for some distance in a Southerly course (bounding the above Counties) through a wild moorish district until it flows through the romantic demesne of Newhall where the Scenery upon it is Said to coinside with that painted in Ramsay's pastoral of the Gentle Shepherd, after passing Newhall it enters a bleaK uninteresting district as far as the pleasure grounds surrounding PenicuiK House where it becomes more expanded & continues its course in a north easterly direction through a highly cultivated and interesting country until it enters the "Firth of Forth" at the Town of "Musselburgh". Previous to its embouchure it blends with the "South EsK" where the continuation taKes the name of the "River EsK", it has attained celebrity throughout the Kingdom for the quality of machinery it worKs during its course 10 paper and Several other Mills being wrough by it, upon its banKs stand Several flourishing Villages viz "PenicuiK", "Lasswade" and the Towns of BalKeith and Musselburgh, as also the magnificient ruins of Robin Castle and Chapel justly celebrated for their Gothic granduer. nor do the ivy clad remains of "old Woodhouslee". "RavensnooK" and "Brunston Castle" which once defended the district form objects of Secondary interest to those who Know them to have been the strongholds if the Companions of William Wallace.

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List of names collected by 2nd Corpl [Corporal] Mechan RSM [Royal Sappers and Miners] 1st Exr [Examiner] 27th January 1852.

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