Megget Water, a troutful rivulet of Westerkirk parish, NE Dumfriesshire, rising, close to the Roxburghshire boundary, at an altitude of 1200 feet, and running 7¼ miles south-by-westward, till, after a total descent of nearly 800 feet, it falls into the Esk at a point 7 miles NW of Langholm. —Ord. Sur., shs. 16, 10, 1864.
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