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See also:GREENLAW (a " grassy See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill ") , a See also:town of See also:Berwickshire, See also:Scot-See also:land. Pop. (1901) 611. It is situated on the Blackadder, 62; m. S.E. of See also:Edinburgh by the See also:North See also:British railway See also:company's See also:branch See also:line from Reston Junction to St Boswells. The town was built towards the end of the 17th See also:century, to take the See also:place of an older one, which stood about a mile to the S.E. It was the See also:county town from 1696 to 1853, when for several years it shared this dignity with See also:Duns, which, however, is now the See also:sole See also:capital. The See also:chief manufactures are woollens and agricultural implements. About 3 M. to the S. the ruin of See also:Hume See also:Castle, founded in the 13th century, occupies a commanding site. Captured by the See also:English in 1547, in spite of See also:Lady See also:Home's gallant See also:defence, it was retaken two years afterwards, only to fall again in 1569. After its surrender to See also:Cromwell in 165o it gradually decayed. Towards the See also:close of the 18th century the 3rd See also:earl of See also:Marchmont had the walls rebuilt out of the old stones, and the castle, though a See also:mere See also:- SHELL
- SHELL (O. Eng. scell, scyll, cf. Du. sceel, shell, Goth. skalja, tile; the word means originally a thin flake,. cf. Swed. skalja, to peel off; it is allied to " scale " and " skill," from a root meaning to cleave, divide, separate)
shell of the See also:original structure, is now a picturesque ruin.
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