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Ettrick Forest Ettrick Forest Chalmers Caledonia
Fullerton's Gazetteer
New Statistical Account.
003.05 ; 003.13 ; 003.14 ; 007.02 ; 007.03 A popular, poetic, & historical name for the whole or chief part of Selkirkshire. All the country watered by the Ettrick, the Yarrow and their tributaries, and the Kindred districts watered by the Cadon North of the Tweed, besides the upper ward of Clydesdale, were anciently a literal Forest, the remains of the ancient Caledonian Forest.
Excepting a few straggling Thorns, and some solitary birches, no traces of Ettrick Forest now remain, although, wherever protected from the Sheep, Copses soon arise without any planting.
A. Burnaby
Cap. RE [Captain Royal Engineers]
31 Dec 1858.

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