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... Towns and villages Police Inns and ale - houses Roads and bridges Harbours Ferries , and their state Number of fhips and ... town , village , or in the country VOL . I. Number Number of houfes uninhabited houses dove - cots , and ( ix )
... Towns and villages Police Inns and ale - houses Roads and bridges Harbours Ferries , and their state Number of fhips and ... town , village , or in the country VOL . I. Number Number of houfes uninhabited houses dove - cots , and ( ix )
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... town itself is peculiarly healthy , fewer epidemical distempers prevailing there than in the neigh- bouring towns of Hawick and Kelfo . The rheumatism is the most common diforder , which , though not frequent a- mong people of better ...
... town itself is peculiarly healthy , fewer epidemical distempers prevailing there than in the neigh- bouring towns of Hawick and Kelfo . The rheumatism is the most common diforder , which , though not frequent a- mong people of better ...
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... town and country part of the parish , above 80. Many have furvived go during the in- cumbency of the present minister ; and there are three per- fons in the town , now living , who are above 90. There is alfo a fhepherd in the 94th year ...
... town and country part of the parish , above 80. Many have furvived go during the in- cumbency of the present minister ; and there are three per- fons in the town , now living , who are above 90. There is alfo a fhepherd in the 94th year ...
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... town and in the country . This de- crease is partly to be attributed to the Union between the two kingdoms , by which the trade of Jedburgh was , in a great measure , ruined , and the population of the town diminished of confequence ...
... town and in the country . This de- crease is partly to be attributed to the Union between the two kingdoms , by which the trade of Jedburgh was , in a great measure , ruined , and the population of the town diminished of confequence ...
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... town of Jedburgh , while at prefent there are only three in actual occupation ; and the corporation of skinners and glovers , formerly the most wealthy in that town , have , fince the Union , greatly di- minished , both in regard to ...
... town of Jedburgh , while at prefent there are only three in actual occupation ; and the corporation of skinners and glovers , formerly the most wealthy in that town , have , fince the Union , greatly di- minished , both in regard to ...
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