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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Ettrick Forest Ettrick Forest
Ettrick Forest
Ettrick Forest
Chalmers Caledonia
Fullertons Gazetteer
New Statistical Account
006 ; 07 ; 009 ; 010 ; 013 ; 014 ; 017 ; 018 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 northward of the Tweed, besides the upper ward of Clydesdale, was anciently a literal Forest, the remains of the ancient Caledonian Forest - the most numerous woods were oaks. mingled with birch & hazel - Excepting a few straggling thorns and some solitary birches, now traces of the Forest now remain altho [although], wherever protected from the sheep, copses soon arise without any Planting.
A Burnaby
Cap. [Captain] R.E. [Royal Engineers]
31 Decr. [December] 1858 [31 Dec 1858]

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Parish of Yarrow
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