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<p> A craig or whinstone hill of the puttocks (small hawks), "a high moorland farm on the watershed between [[Dumfriesshire]] and Galloway, 10 m. from Dumfries," the property for generations of a family of Welshes, and eventually that of their heiress, Jane [[Welsh]] Carlyle, "the loneliest spot in all the British dominions," which the Carlyles made their dwelling-house in 1828, where they remained for seven years, and where "Sartor" was written. "It is certain," Carlyle says of it long after, "that for living and thinking in I have never since found in the world a place so favourable.... How blessed," he exclaims, "might poor mortals be in the straitest circumstances if their wisdom and fidelity to heaven and to one another were adequately great!" </p>
<p> A craig or whinstone hill of the puttocks (small hawks), "a high moorland farm on the watershed between [[Dumfriesshire]] and Galloway, 10 m. from Dumfries," the property for generations of a family of Welshes, and eventually that of their heiress, Jane [[Welsh]] Carlyle, "the loneliest spot in all the British dominions," which the Carlyles made their dwelling-house in 1828, where they remained for seven years, and where "Sartor" was written. "It is certain," Carlyle says of it long after, "that for living and thinking in I have never since found in the world a place so favourable.... How blessed," he exclaims, "might poor mortals be in the straitest circumstances if their wisdom and fidelity to heaven and to one another were adequately great!" </p>
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<ref name="term_71512"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/craigenputtock Craigenputtock from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
<ref name="term_71512"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/craigenputtock Craigenputtock from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
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Latest revision as of 17:11, 15 October 2021

Craigenputtock [1]

A craig or whinstone hill of the puttocks (small hawks), "a high moorland farm on the watershed between Dumfriesshire and Galloway, 10 m. from Dumfries," the property for generations of a family of Welshes, and eventually that of their heiress, Jane Welsh Carlyle, "the loneliest spot in all the British dominions," which the Carlyles made their dwelling-house in 1828, where they remained for seven years, and where "Sartor" was written. "It is certain," Carlyle says of it long after, "that for living and thinking in I have never since found in the world a place so favourable.... How blessed," he exclaims, "might poor mortals be in the straitest circumstances if their wisdom and fidelity to heaven and to one another were adequately great!"

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