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EYEMOtTTH
soutliem boundary. The coast rises 90 feet from tlie
sea in rocky precipitous cliffs, wHch here and there are
channelled by deep fissures or gullies, and at one place
are pierced by a cavern ; except at two points where
roads have been scooped down its Assures, and at Eye-
mouth, where it is dissevered by the Eye, it admits no
access to the beach. The interior is undulating, or
slightly hilly, attaining 212 feet above sea-level at a
point on the Coldingham road 7 furlongs W of the town,
252 at Highlaws, and 305 on the western boundary.
The rocks comprise traps, greywacke, and Old Red sand-
stone, in such connections one with another as are emi-
nently interesting to geologists. The soil in general is
fertile. All the land, since the latter part of last century,
has been in productive condition. Linthill House, over-
looking the confluence of the Ale and the Eye, 1^ mile
S by W of the town, is an old mansion, and was the scene,
in 1752, of the murder of the widow of its proprietor,
Patrick Home. Milne-Home of Wedderburn is chief
EYNOET
proprietor, 7 others holding each an annual value of
between £100 and £500, 11 of from £50 to £100, and 42
of from £20 to £50. Eyemouth is in the presbytery of
Chirnside and synod of Merse and Teviotdale ; the living
is worth £279. The public school, with accommodation
for 800 chUdren, had (1882) an average attendance of
450, and a grant of £387. Valuation (1865) £5624,
14s. Id., (1882) £9084, lis. Pop. (1801) 899, (1831)
1181, (1851) 14SS, (1861) 1804, (1871) 2372, (1881)
2935.— OrtZ. Sur., sh. 34, 1864.
Eylt, Loch. See Eanxooh.
Eynort, a sea-loch in the E of South Uist island. Outer
Hebrides, Inverness-shire. Opening at a point 84 miles
N of the south-eastern extremity of the island, it strikes
6 miles north-westward to within a brief distance of the
western coast ; and, with a very irregular outline, ex-
hibits wild and picturesque features of scenery, that
only want trees or copsewood to render it in many
places enchantingly beautiful.
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