" We may murmur that Catlie Hill is one thing and Catlock
another, but Colonel Elliot points out that "lock" means "the meeting
of waters," and that Catlie Hill is near the meeting of Dinlay burn and
the Hermitage water. But then why does Blaeu call it, not Catlockhill,
nor Catlie hill, nor "Catlie" even, but "Gatlie," for so it is
distinctly printed on my copy of the map? Really we cannot take a
place called "Gatlie Hill" and pronounce that we have found
"Catlockhill"! Would Colonel Elliot have permitted Mr. Veitch--if Mr.
Veitch had found "Gatlie Hill" near Branksome, in Blaeu--to aver that
he had found Catslockhill near Branksome?
Thus, till Colonel Elliot produces on good evidence a Catlockhill
between Coultartcleugh and Preakinhaugh, the topography of the Elliot
ballad, of the Sharpe copy of the ballad, is nowhere, for neither
Catliehill nor Gatliehill is Catlockhill. That does not look as if the
Elliot were older than the Scott version. (There was a Sim ARMSTRONG
of the CATHILL, slain by a Ridley of Hartswell in 1597.
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