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YARROW, river, hamlet, and parish in Selkirkshire. The river issues from St. Mary's Loch ; runs 11 miles north-east-ward and 3 miles south-eastward to the Ettrick, at 2 miles west-south-west of Selkirk; traverses from head to foot a very lovely pastoral vale ; and, with objects and scenery on its banks, has been celebrated in more poetry, both old and recent, than any other stream in Scotland. The hamlet lies on left side of the river, 9 miles west of Selkirk; is near a hill-slope, formerly with more than 20 large cairns, but now with no other antiquity than two massive unhewn stones, the scene of the famous ancient ballad, ' The Dowie Dens of Yarrow ; ' and has a post office under Selkirk, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 70 scholars. The parish contains also part of Yarrowf eus hamlet and part of Yarrowford, measures 16 miles by 8, and comprises 41,046 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 13,141. Pop. 562. The surface includes greater part of St. Mary's Loch ; is partly bounded on the north by the Tweed; contains numerous small vales watered by burns running mostly to the Yarrow ; consists predominantly of mountains and lofty hills, variously in ridges, in groups, and in isolated masses ; and contains at least 17 summits between 15W and 2169 feet high. The seats are Elibank, Ashiestiel, and Hangingshaw ; and chief antiquities are Dryhope and Blackhouse towers, Binram's Cross, St. Mary's Kirk burying-ground, and the two stones on the 'Dowie Dens.' There are 3 schools for 167 scholars, and 1 of them for 54 is new.