The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Roxburgh, Peebles, SelkirkW. Blackwood and Sons, 1845 - Scotland |
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... expense of coal . In the glen near Hunthill House there are considerable appearances of coal formation ; and at a short distance from this , various trials had been made for coal , as appears from the council - records of Jedburgh , so ...
... expense of coal . In the glen near Hunthill House there are considerable appearances of coal formation ; and at a short distance from this , various trials had been made for coal , as appears from the council - records of Jedburgh , so ...
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... expense of coal . In the glen near Hunthill House there are considerable appearances of coal formation ; and at a short distance from this , various trials had been made for coal , as appears from the council - records of Jedburgh , so ...
... expense of coal . In the glen near Hunthill House there are considerable appearances of coal formation ; and at a short distance from this , various trials had been made for coal , as appears from the council - records of Jedburgh , so ...
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... expense , as is evident from the proposal which was made to defray it by a tax of two pennies up- on every hearth in Scotland . A small portion of its remaining walls was removed a few years ago , and on levelling its site for the ...
... expense , as is evident from the proposal which was made to defray it by a tax of two pennies up- on every hearth in Scotland . A small portion of its remaining walls was removed a few years ago , and on levelling its site for the ...
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... expenses . The stipends are derived from the seat rents . Divine service , both at the Established church and at the meet- ing - houses , is much better attended than it was some years ago ; but still it is to be regretted , that a ...
... expenses . The stipends are derived from the seat rents . Divine service , both at the Established church and at the meet- ing - houses , is much better attended than it was some years ago ; but still it is to be regretted , that a ...
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... expense of education per annum is , for classical scholars , L. 2 , and for English , 10s . The general average is L. 1 . " Literature . There are several excellent public libraries in Jed- burgh . The Company's Library " is an ...
... expense of education per annum is , for classical scholars , L. 2 , and for English , 10s . The general average is L. 1 . " Literature . There are several excellent public libraries in Jed- burgh . The Company's Library " is an ...
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acres agriculture amount ancient Ancrum annual annum appears arable Ashkirk attended average number banks barley Bedrule belonging bolls border breed Buccleuch burgh Castle cattle Cavers chalders Cheviot chiefly coal considerable Crailing crop cultivated distance district Duke of Buccleuch Duke of Roxburghe east Edinburgh English erected extent farm feet former formerly glebe greywacke ground Hawick heritors hills husbandry improvement inhabitants Jedburgh Kelso Kilbucho Kirk Yetholm kirk-session labour land late Lempitlaw Lilliesleaf lime manse Melrose MERSE miles minister Minto Morebattle nearly neighbourhood number of families number of persons parish pasture Peebles plantations plough population PRESBYTERY present proprietors rent repair residence rish river road rocks Roxburghshire sandstone Scotland Scott sheep side situated soil Southdean Sprouston Statistical Account stipend stone stream tenants Teviot Teviotdale tion town Town Yetholm trees turnips Tweed upwards V.-PAROCHIAL ECONOMY village whole wood Yetholm
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Page 437 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn ; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 8 - ... meetings in the field, or in any house where there be more persons than the house contains, so as some of them be without doors (which is hereby declared to be a field conventicle) or who shall convocate any number of people to these meetings, shall be punished with death, and confiscation of their goods.
Page 276 - ... grand features of the landscape around me ; and the historical incidents, or traditional legends connected with many of them, gave to my admiration a sort of intense impression of reverence, which at times made my heart feel too big for its bosom. From this time the love of natural beauty, more especially when combined with ancient ruins, or remains of our fathers...
Page 374 - The storm is changed into a calm, At His command and will ; So that the waves which raged before Now quiet are and still ! Then are they glad,— because at rest And quiet now they be : So to the haven He them brings Which they desired to see.
Page 7 - A notary-public signed for all the parties to the deed, none of whom could write their names. The original is still in the charter-room of the present Mr Scott of Harden. By the Flower of Yarrow...
Page 479 - The greatest want,' says Pennecuik, ' is timber. Little planting is to be seen in Tweeddale, except it be some few bushes of trees about the houses of the gentry ; and not one wood worth naming in all this open and windy country.
Page 63 - ... wandering echoes thrill The shepherd, lingering on the twilight hill, When evening brings the merry folding hours, And sun-eyed daisies close their winking flowers. He lived, o'er Yarrow's Flower to shed the tear, To strew the holly leaves o'er Harden's bier; But none was found above the minstrel's tomb, Emblem of peace, to bid the daisy bloom : He, nameless as the race from which he sprung, Saved other names, and left his own unsung.
Page 471 - ... fit of good fellowship, they use it as a cement and bond of society, and not to foment or revenge quarrels and murders, which is too ordinary in other places. And they are of so loyal and peaceable dispositions, that they have seldom or never appeared in arms against their lawful sovereign, nor were there amongst that great number, twelve persons from Tweeddale, at the...
Page 47 - ... his horses, a small farm is nearly unknown. The displacing of the old small tenants, distinguished as they were by a primitive simplicity of manners, was at first viewed with deep regret ; that an entire barony should be committed to one man, was exclaimed against as a public grievance.