. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical. er distances. The greatestlength of the county is 29:^ miles from E to W ; thegreatest breadth is 20^ miles from N to S ; and the areais 294,804J acres of land, 1557^ acres of water, and 799acres of foreshore—in all, 464 square miles. The coast, exclusive of minor sinuosities, measuresabout 19 miles in length ; trends, in general direction,from NW to SE; makes two considerable projections, inthe form of promontories, around Fast Castle and St AbbsHead; has two small bays at Coldingham
. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical. er distances. The greatestlength of the county is 29:^ miles from E to W ; thegreatest breadth is 20^ miles from N to S ; and the areais 294,804J acres of land, 1557^ acres of water, and 799acres of foreshore—in all, 464 square miles. The coast, exclusive of minor sinuosities, measuresabout 19 miles in length ; trends, in general direction,from NW to SE; makes two considerable projections, inthe form of promontories, around Fast Castle and St AbbsHead; has two small bays at Coldingham and Eyemouth,but no other landing-places, except two or three acces-sible only to fishing boats or similar very small craft;and almost entirely consists of bold rocky precipices,ranging in altitude from 117 to 528 feet above the surface of the southern or Merse division of tlie in-terior, amounting to about 100,220 acres, is all lowcountry, and iniites with the contiguous Merse sectionof Roxburghshire to form the largest plain in , though presenting a general uniformity of level, it.
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