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Title: The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Muirhead, George
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Edinburgh, David Douglas
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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amekeepers Rail at Wedderlie House. By John Blair, 213 Tweed Mill. By John Blair, 215 Rook-shooting at Paxton. By John Blair, .... 239Fast Castle. Original Etching by W. B. Hole, E.S.A., facing page 243 Rocks at Fairneyside, near Burnmouth. By John Blair, from Photograph by G. Muirhead, 249 Billie Castle. By John Blair, 255 Dryburgh Abbey. By John Blair, 257 Penmanshiel. By John Blair, 260 Ayton Castle. By John Blair, 264 Milne Graden House. By John Blair, 266 The Tweed at Paxton. From Original Etching by W. D.MKay, R.S.A. Engraved by G. Airman, A.R.S.A., facing page 267 The Mermaids Well, near the Dod Mill. By John Blair, . 272 Greenknowe Tower. By John Blair, 279 Lennel Kirkyard. By John Blair 286 FmcHY Shiel, on the Tweed at Paxton. By John Blair, . 295 Billie Mire, looking West. By John Blair, .... 301 The Meuchel Stane. By John Blair, 304 Earnsheugh, near St. Abbs Head. By John Blair, 310 The Pech Stane, near Billie Mains. By John Blair, . 314 Penmanshiel Wood. By John Blair, 316
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IZ 3fiddUX>n(m>^ y Ovef^oweriwuse INTHODUCTION. Berwickshire is the most south-easterly county in Scot-land, and has, generally speaking, well-defined naturalboundaries — the Lammermuir Hills on the north, thevalley of the Leader on the west, the German Ocean onthe north and east, and the river Tweed on the south.-^ Itis oblong in shape—the greatest length from east to westbeing about 29 miles, and the utmost breadth from north tosouth nearly 21 miles. The area is 294,804 acres of land,1557 acres of water, and 799 acres of foreshore—in all 464square miles.^ The coast is bold and precipitous, and measures, ex-clusive of minor sinuosities, about 19 miles in length. Ittrends in a north-westerly direction from the easternextremity of the parish of Mordington—on the march ofthe Liberties of Berwick — to St. Abbs Head, andthence westwards by Fast Castle to the mouth of DunglassBurn on the boundary of East-Lothian. Along the sea-board a wide ridge of elevated ground stretches

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