. The topographical, statistical, and historical gazetteer of Scotland. -east of of Pulteneytown, jointly with Louis-burgh and Bankhead, in 1811, 755; of Pulteneytownalone, in 1840, 2,959. PYKED-STANE, or Hells Cleugh, a moun-tain in Peebles-shire, situated at a point in whichthe three parishes of Kirkurd, Broughton, and Stobomeet, and possessing an altitude, according to Arm-strong, of 2,100 feet above sea-level. The namePyked-Stane belongs strictly to the summit, and isderived from a small cairn with which it is crowned;and the name Hells cleugh seems to belong to thenort
. The topographical, statistical, and historical gazetteer of Scotland. -east of of Pulteneytown, jointly with Louis-burgh and Bankhead, in 1811, 755; of Pulteneytownalone, in 1840, 2,959. PYKED-STANE, or Hells Cleugh, a moun-tain in Peebles-shire, situated at a point in whichthe three parishes of Kirkurd, Broughton, and Stobomeet, and possessing an altitude, according to Arm-strong, of 2,100 feet above sea-level. The namePyked-Stane belongs strictly to the summit, and isderived from a small cairn with which it is crowned;and the name Hells cleugh seems to belong to thenorthern or Kirkurd declivity, which is furrowed bya torrent, a tiny tributary of the Tarth. The sum-mit of the mountain commands one of the mostextensive views in Scotland, though one which ismarred and broken by a surgy sea of heights whichcompose the fore-ground; and it lifts the eye, in onedirection, to the hills around Loch-Lomond,—in an-other, to the Eildon hills, behind Melrose,—and, ina third, to the blue, dome-like summits of the Che-viots in — ojmm ggra»- MONKS TOWER, PERTH. QUA 574 QUE QTJAIR, a rivulet of between 6 and 7 miles inlength of course, from the south-western extremityof the parish of Traquair to the Tweed at the north-ern boundary of that parish, Peebles-sbire. Thesource is on the east side of Blackcleugh-head; andthe embouchure is immediately below Traquair-liouse, and directly opposite the village of Innerlei-then. The direction for about a mile a short wayabove the village of Traquair is east-south-easterly ;but everywhere else, excepting windings, it is north-eastward or north-north-eastward. The chief tri-butaries are the united waters of Newhall and Shil-ling-law burns, a little below the village, and thestream of Glengaber or Finland burn at Traquairmill,—each of them nearly equal to itself in lengthand volume. Though the Quair is short, it pays aconsiderable tribute to the Tweed ; and, as a trout-ing-stream, and an enlivener
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