Merrick, a mountain near the northern border of Minnigaff parish, NW Kirkcudbrightshire, 18 miles N by W of Newton-Stewart. Rising to an altitude of 2764 feet above sea-level, it is the highest summit in southern Scotland, 'while in the grandeur and desolation of its scenery, in its crags and precipices and deeply-scored gullies, it almost approaches the mountains of the North.'-Ord. Sur., sh. 8, 1863.
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