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Ordnance Survey - Berwick county, OS Name Books - Berwick county - Volume 23 - Parish of Greenlaw, OS1/5/23

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The following is an answer from David Milne Home, Milne Graden, Esq[uire] to a letter addressed him by Captain Burnaby R.E. respecting the "Kaims".
Milne Graden
Coldstream 27th November 1857.
My dear Sir,
Absence in East Lothian has prevented me replying to your note of the 21st Instant asking my opinion of the nature and construction of the Kaims in Greenlaw Parish.
Being much puzzled how to account for them, I took the late Dr Buckland and the present Professor Sedgwick to see them, the one Professor of Geology at Oxford, the other from Cambridge.
The former expressed to me his belief that they are the terminal moraines of a Glacier which descended from the hills to the North,-

Ordnance Survey - Berwick county, OS Name Books - Berwick county - Volume 23 - Parish of Greenlaw, OS1/5/23

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

Ordnance Survey - Berwick 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 Berwick, which is in the south east of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.

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