INNERLEITHEN

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burgh

BURGH [BOURKE, BURKE]
BURGH, HUBERT DE (d. 1243)

and health resort of Peebles-shire, Scotland, on Leithen Water, near its junction with the Tweed, m. S.E. of Peebles by the North British railway. Pop. (Igor) 2181. In olden times it seems to have been known as Hornehuntersland, and to have been mentioned as early as 1159, when a son of

Malcolm

MALCOLM
MALCOLM, SIR JOHN (1769-1833)

IV. (the Maiden) was drowned in 6 pool of the Tweed, close to Leithenfoot. Its

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

industry is the manufacture of tweeds and fine yarns, which, together with the fame of its medicinal springs, brought the

burgh

BURGH [BOURKE, BURKE]
BURGH, HUBERT DE (d. 1243)

into prominence towards the end of the 18th century. The spa, alleged to be the St Ronan's well of Scott's novel of that name, has a pump-room, baths, &c. The saline waters are useful in minor cases of dyspepsia and

liver

LIVER (O. Eng. lifer; cf. cognate forms, Dutch lever, Ger. Leber, Swed. lefver, &c.; the O. H. Ger. forms are libara, lipora, &c.; the Teut. word has been connected with Gr. i'prap and Lat. jecur)

complaints. The town is flanked on the W. by the hill fort of Caerlee (400 ft. long) and on the E. by that of the Pirn (350 ft. long). Farther E., close to the

village

VILLAGE

of Walkerburn, are Purvis Hill terraces, a remarkable

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of earthen banks, from 5o ft. to more than 10o ft. wide, and with a length varying up to 900 ft., the origin and purpose of which are unknown. Traquair

House

, or Palace, on the right bank of the Tweed, is believed to be the oldest inhabited

house

in Scotland, the most ancient portion dating from the loth century, and including a remnant of the castle. It was largely added to by Sir John Stewart, first

earl

EARL

of Traquair (d. 1659) and is a good example of the Scottish Baronial mansion with high-pitched roof and turreted angles. To the west of the house was the arbour which formed the "

bush

BUSH

aboon Traquair " of the songs by Robert Crawford (d. 1733) and John Campbell Shairp, its site being indicated by a few birch trees. James

Nicol

NICOL, JAMES (1810-1879)
NICOL, WILLIAM

(1769-1819), the poet. was minister of Traquair, and his son James

Nicol

NICOL, JAMES (1810-1879)
NICOL, WILLIAM

(1810-1879), the geologist and professor of natural history in Aberdeen University, was born in the manse.

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