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found near Carse-na-brock ; but still, on the neighbouring 

 Luce, Lincom runs in the sharp sweep which earned for 

 it the name of the crooked pool, and local history con- 

 firms the justice of the title borne by the Bloody Wiel, 

 where the Linns of Larg and the Hays of Park once 

 settled their differences. 



More than one salmon-pool has earned historic distinc- 

 tion from its name being adopted as a personal one. 

 Thus, if in passing south from Ayr you will look out on 

 the right side at Dalrymple station, you shall see how the 

 bonnie Doon makes a sudden circular sweep round three 

 sides of a flat and fertile piece of ground crom pol the 

 crooked pool whence the level ground became known as 

 dal-chruim-puill, the land portion of the crooked pool. 

 In time, when the need arose for surnames, the possessor 

 of this land became known as Dalrymple, whose descend- 

 ants have carried the name to glory as statesmen, soldiers, 

 and lawyers. 



But I have said enough already in another of these 

 random papers too much, the reader may think on 

 this subject. Perhaps my best excuse for maundering over 

 what Porthos denounced as un plaisir roturier angling 

 and its pertinents may be found in the fact that my own 

 name is derived from a salmon-pool. Maccus the son of 

 Undwin, and great-grandson of that other Maccus who 

 thought it no shame in 973 to attest a charter of Edgar 

 King of England as ' Archipirata ' arch-pirate obtained 

 from David i. of Scotland certain lands adjacent to Kelso, 

 comprising a productive salmon-pool, which soon became 

 known as Maccus' or Max's wiel. The lands took their 

 name from the pool ; the descendants of Maccus became, 

 in the feudal manner, De Maccuswell or Maxwell, and 



