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| Middle Shiel | Middle Shiel | Mr John Carr | on sheet | A small house on Goswick | ||
| Middle Shiel | Mr John T Smith | 7.15 | Links situated nearly 3/4s of a | |||
| Middle Shiel | Mr George McGregor | mile southeast of "Near Shiel" | ||||
| It is now inhabited by fisher | ||||||
| men – | ||||||
| Swinny Goat | Swinny Goat | Mr Carr Salmon Inn, Goswick | on sheets | This is a very crooked channel | ||
| 7.12 | running through the sand | |||||
| 7.16 | between high, and low water, | |||||
| 8.13 | It branches off the South Low | |||||
| 11.4 | about 1/2 mile from the shore | |||||
| and north of Beal Point and | ||||||
| after a zigzag course of about | ||||||
| 1 1/2 miles, enters the low water | ||||||
| about a mile north of "Snook | ||||||
| Point" It is fordable at all | ||||||
| tides at low water. I could | ||||||
| not obtain the meaning of | ||||||
| the word "Goat" as applied | ||||||
| in this case. Some are of | ||||||
| opinion that it is a corruption | ||||||
| of Gut. It forms the By between | ||||||
| Holy Island and Goswick Sands | ||||||
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