The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Roxburgh, Peebles, SelkirkW. Blackwood and Sons, 1845 |
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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 Duke of Buccleuch Duke of Roxburghe east Edinburgh erected extent farm feet former formerly glebe grass greywacke ground Hawick heritors hills improvement inhabitants Jedburgh Kelso Kilbucho Kirk Yetholm kirk-session labour land late Lempitlaw Lilliesleaf lime manse Melrose MERSE miles minister Minto nearly neighbourhood number of families number of persons parish parish church pasture Peebles plantations plough population PRESBYTERY present proprietors rent repair residence rish river road rocks Roxburghe Roxburghshire sandstone Scotland Scott sheep side situated soil Southdean Sprouston stipend stone stream tenants Teviot Teviotdale tion town Town Yetholm trees turnips Tweed upwards V.-PAROCHIAL ECONOMY village whole wood Yetholm
Passatges populars
Pàgina 455 - 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.
Pàgina 238 - Lylliard lies under this stane, Little was her stature, but great was her fame ; Upon the English louns she laid mony thumps, And when her legs were cutted off, she fought upon her stumps.
Pàgina 293 - Bosomed in woods where mighty rivers run, Kelso's fair vale expands before the sun : Its rising downs in vernal beauty swell, And, fringed with hazel, winds each flowery dell ; Green spangled plains to dimpling lawns succeed, And Tempe* rises on the banks of Tweed ; Blue o'er the river Kelso's shadow lies, And copse-clad isles amid the waters rise...
Pàgina 12 - I assure your Grace (Henry VIII.) that I found the Scots at this time the boldest men and the hottest that ever I saw any nation, and all the...
Pàgina 24 - ... 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.
Pàgina 294 - ... 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...
Pàgina 39 - 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...
Pàgina 7 - 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.
Pàgina 58 - The History of Great Britain: from the revolution in 1688, to the accession of George the First.
Pàgina 38 - Andrew Bell, who made the King as good an account of them as if they had gone in the bounds of Fife.