Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Dee

Dee, river, W. Kirkcudbrightshire; issues from Loch Dee, flows SE. and S., and falls into Kirkcudbright Bay; is 38½ miles long, is navigable to Tongueland, 2½ miles above the town of Kirkcudbright, and contains salmon, trout, pike, perch, and pearl-mussels; before it receives the Water of Ken at Parton, it is also called the Black Water of Dee.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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