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Identifier: earthitsinhabita481recl (find matches)
Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
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■1 Miles. of the county, engages in the herring fishery. The coast to the north of it isexceedingly wild. Two of its promontories are occupied by the lighthouse ofSt. Abbs Head, and by Fast Castle, described as Wolfs Crag in the Brideof Lammermuir. The ravine of the Pease, or Peaths, descending to the coast,is spanned by a singular bridge. The three counties which lie along the southern coast of the Firth of Forthhave been carved out of the ancient district of Lothian, and are hence stillfrequently described as East, Mid, and West Lothian. So ndiQ^ 7a !Ei^iH^AND THE FIRTH OF FORTH
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HADDINGTON—EDINBUEGH. 325 Haddington, or East Lothian, consists in the main of a fertile lowland, abovewliich rise a few detached groups of hills, and which is bounded on the south bythe Lammermuir Hills (1,732 feet). The Tyne Water crosses the lower part ofthe county from west to east. The coast, with its bold cliffs interrupted by sandybays, is perilous. No part of Scotland surpasses this county in its agriculture. Haddington, the county town, on the Tyne and^at the foot of Gareton Hill, is oneof the principal grain markets in Scotland. Rape-seed cakes and bone manure aremanufactured. The fine old Gothic church, the lamp of Lothian of other daysbecause of its beauty, is now in ruins. Gifford, the birthplace of John Knox, liesto the south. Dunhar, near the mouth of the Tyne, with a harbour difficult ofaccess, is one of the principal seats of the herring fishery. Its dismantled castle,on a jutting rock perpetually gnawed by the sea, is famous for its gallant defenceby Black Agnes, t

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