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Ordnance Survey - Lanark county, OS Name Books - Lanark county - Volume 11 - Parish of Carluke, OS1/21/11

Continued entries/extra info

may be in time for
engraving on the reduced
scale.

the cause of the mispelling
of words taken from old
M.S. is, in this case, the
resemblance of the letter "e"
to the modern d, as it is
written thus ∂, and the
above mentioned is in
old papers in my possession
Zule. In like manner
shiel would be shield in

M.S.

I fear my own writing
will give more trouble
than the subject is worth.

I saw General Matson
a few days before I came
hither on a visit. he bears
his years well, and looks
so, especially on horseback.

Yours faithfully
P Yule

Transcriber's notes

This is the closest symbol I could find to the one in the letter. It is not very close!



There is a word towards the end of the letter that I could not decipher. I have inserted a "?"

Ordnance Survey - Lanark county, OS Name Books - Lanark county - Volume 11 - Parish of Carluke, OS1/21/11

This volume contains information on place names found in the parish of Carluke.

Ordnance Survey - Lanark county

Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Lanark, which is in the west of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.

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