Yarrow

Yarrow, a Scottish stream famous in song and ballad, that rises at the meeting-point of Peebles, Dumfries, and Selkirk shires, and flows 25 miles north-eastward till it joins the Ettrick, 2 miles above Selkirk town. About 5 miles from its source it expands into first the Loch of the Lowes (1 by $\backslash frac\{1\}\{4\}$ mile) and then St Mary's Loch (3 by $\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ mile; 814 feet above sea-level), the two being separated only by a neck of land on which stands Tibbie Shiel's hostelry. Under SELKIRKSHIRE have been noticed a few of the many memories of that hill-girt lake and the deep swirling stream; and reference may be also made to BALLAD and to Borland's Yarrow, its Poets and Poetry (1890), the poets including Hamilton of Bangour, Logan, Hogg, Scott, and Wordsworth.